The IDC Health Insights Executive Retreat is organised as a high-level peer discussion for senior practitioners in New Zealand. As the provider community faces increasing financial constraints, ever-changing technologies, and demand for collaboration in a highly fragmented environment, the need to create a thought-leadership community comprising of senior healthcare providers and services practitioners is critical. This Retreat is designed to address that need, and also to disseminate evolving regional and global best practices relevant to New Zealand healthcare organisations.

A number of technology initiatives are particularly important to New Zealand healthcare organisations. These are electronic health records, e-Health, ICT infrastructure optimisation and virtualisation to name a few. The Retreat participants will also discuss and debate on some of the evolving best practices and case studies. During the Retreat, relevant results from the Executive End-User Provider Survey will also be shared as part of sharing global best practices. Other case studies including Asia Pacific, North American and European hospitals will be shared. These case studies endorse our belief that although most of the issues that the healthcare organisations face are common, their corresponding solutions vary.

IDC Health Insights is the world’s leading provider of independent research services, custom consulting, and advisory services focusing on the business and technology issues in the healthcare and life sciences community. We are the preferred research partner for world's top hospitals, pharmaceutical and technology companies. For the past five years, we have been helping our clients understand and manage the challenges they face across an intense and rapidly changing business, and in an increasingly demanding operational and technological environment. We proudly employ the industry’s most talented minds, which equip our clients with insights that they rely on and advice they trust. Furthermore, we are the only research firm in the world that has significant on-ground presence with analysts based in America, Asia Pacific and Europe.