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When I joined Synergy Consulting in 2015, I stepped into a business that had already spent three decades supporting New Zealand's medical device and pharmaceutical sectors. Over the following years, I moved from industry participant to business partner alongside Gary Beattie before taking ownership of the business in 2019. At the time, I thought I was entering a relationship-driven industry built on trust, face-to-face engagement and long-term partnerships. What I witnessed o

With more than two decades at Baxter Healthcare in New Zealand, Sheila Mutschel has built a career shaped by curiosity, adaptability and a deep understanding of how healthcare services are delivered in practice. Today, as Head of Strategic Partnerships and Marketing for Baxter’s compounding business in New Zealand and Australia, Sheila feels a deep connection to the company’s mission to save and sustain lives. Baxter has operated in New Zealand for over 40 years, supporting c

Head of Service Delivery and Reseller News NZ Women in ICT Awards Shining Star Award finalist Bronwyn Leak In today’s healthcare environment, pressure is coming from every direction: growing patient demand, workforce shortages, and increasing administrative burden. For organisations across the sector, the question isn’t whether technology can help, but how to apply it to genuinely improve outcomes. This is where FUJIFILM Business Innovation, and leaders like Head of Service D

Data suggests a million script errors annually in New Zealand. Insights from McCrae Tech. The world’s first health AI orchestrator, Orchestral, has launched Orchestral for Medication Safety, a product that supports clinicians to check prescriptions in real time inside pharmacy dispensing workflows to flag dose and interaction risks. The product was developed in direct response to New Zealand’s rates of prescription errors. Estimates for how many people die in New Zealand as a