Our top NZ stories mirrored our Aussie ones in being an acronym-filled paradise but there was one initialism in particular that kept cropping up all year, and it had an E, an H and an R in it. Health Care Homes, wrangling over PMS panels and the NES, the digital hospital blueprint initiative and Waikato's virtual DHB were all hits, as was the name of new digital health chief and the red alert over the NIP.
Interestingly, the top story wasn't a breaking news story so much as a bit of an old stager, so while it had an EHR in it, we reckon it was the LOTR reference that did the trick.
