Auckland's MercyAscot hospital group is aiming to become the first in New Zealand – and perhaps even the world – to fully host its new electronic medical record and patient administration system on Microsoft's Azure Stack hybrid cloud computing platform.

Part of the Healthcare Holdings group, MercyAscot includes two hospitals in Auckland along with Mercy Radiology and Auckland Radiation Oncology clinics.

The company announced in May that it would roll out InterSystems' TrakCare EMR to replace its existing patient administration and clinical information systems, backed by infrastructure support from NZ cloud provider Umbrellar.