April 2nd 2003   1 The New Zealand Health IT Cluster is an industry grouping of New Zealand-based software and solution developers, consultants, health policy makers, health funders, infrastructure companies, healthcare providers and academic institutions. The purpose of the Bulletin is to summarise news and information which either involves, or is of interest to, the New Zealand Health IT Cluster. MORE HIMSS NEWS Martin Entwistle met John Leifer while at HIMSS. John has been in the health IT business for about 20 years and he runs a niche consulting company – they have enough employees to put round a Board Room table –so he is entirely happy dealing withwith Kiwi sized organisations. Where could this go?      The aim of this fortnightly news bulletin is to keep you up to speed with what the cluster is doing for its members and the health sector.      Collaborate or die? The Health IT Cluster has now grown to 40 companies. what are the reasons NZ needs clusters?      Market Entry in the US. The UCLA report delivered an unexpected recomendation. Several Cluster members have decided to continue their interest in the approach offered by the UCLA Anderson School, in Tandem with TradeNZ.      Health IT Cluster Web Site updates --- The NZ Health IT Cluster Website has now been upgraded to include the new cluster logo and images. Each area now has different graphical images of New Zealand. just go to: http://www.healthit.org.nz/      Copyright © 2013 New Zealand HealthIT Cluster. All rights reserved.