The South Island Patient Administration Care System (SI PICS) has gone live at Nelson Marlborough Health, the second district health board to implement the new island-wide system following its pilot at Canterbury's Burwood Hospital.

SI PICS has been developed by Orion Health in association with the five South Island DHBs and the South Island Alliance to replace the nine non-integrated patient management systems used in the region, which include Homer and iPM. It will be implemented by the other DHBs over time.