Pinnacle has covered the device cost of eight Butterfly IQ probes ($2,999 each) that are available to loan free of charge for any Pinnacle GPs who can commit to the annual Butterfly IQ membership licence of $680.00 (excl GST) until 2025.

A ‘passion project’ created and self-funded by Waikato clinical pharmacist Fiona McNabb to help people better understand how and why their medicines work won the New Zealand Hospital Pharmacists Association (NZHPA) Max Health award in late 2022.

One Saturday morning, the server at Dallas Clinic in Morrinsville unexpectedly crashed, including the backup system. The practice lost all its data from the previous two days. The response from the clinic team and their IT provider was phenomenal.

Pinnacle Midlands Health Network has experienced a cyber incident impacting some of its IT services.

15 COPD and CHF remote patient monitoring kits for the Tunstell telemonitoring pilot were approved and purchased by RRAG. With the pilot now finished we will be gifting this equipment by way of EOI.

As Joni Mitchell famously sang, you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone. When Pinnacle clinicians lost access to high-powered clinical reference tool Dynamed for two weeks last year, Dr Roger Smith quickly realised just how true this was.

Social engineering is the art of manipulating people into handing over confidential information. Email phishing is one of the most common forms of social engineering, and healthcare is a popular target.

Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) was rolled out to 29 rural GP practices across the Pinnacle network in September, with overwhelmingly positive feedback from clinicians.

We are proud to announce the data team at Pinnacle Ventures has achieved AWS Select Partner status.

During the COVID-19 lockdown virtual consultations for POAC cases were funded. We are pleased to announce that this will be a permanent change.