NZHIH

To accelerate smart ideas, products and services to improve health outcomes.

We provide DHB innovators with advice on product and service ideas to bring them to reality. We identify and develop innovations and ideas for the benefit of the New Zealand health system.

The New Zealand Health Innovation Hub is owned and managed by Canterbury DHB. We also receive support from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

"If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." - Thomas Edison

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."

Albert von Szent- Gyorgy — Nobel prize winner in Physiology & Medicine 1937

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. Who owns NZHIH?

The New Zealand Health Innovation Hub is owned and managed by Canterbury DHB. We are also supported by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

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Q. What sort of Ideas are we looking for?

We are looking for ideas that can be widely adopted because they:

  • make a material difference to people’s health, here and in other countries;
  • make clinicians’ jobs easier and more effective, so clinicians will want to adopt them; and
  • reduce the cost of care, so public and private funders will want to fund them.
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