Waitemata District Health Board (DHB) has begun the roll-out of the Patientrack bedside monitoring technology solution for early identification of deteriorating patients, beginning in a medical ward at Waitakere Hospital before a full roll-out, including at North Shore Hospital, that is due for completion in 2017.

Patientrack, which was first implemented in New Zealand by Canterbury DHB, won the inaugural New Zealand Healthcare Congress Award for its ANZ distributor MKM Health last month, and is widely used by the NHS in the UK.