Summary
Ministry of Health programme statement describing how precision health technologies, including artificial intelligence and genomics, should be adopted in New Zealand's health system, with definitions, examples, and guiding principles.
Healthcare Implications
Sets system-level expectations that AI in health must be accessible, evidence-based, supervised, and evaluated for its impact on all New Zealanders, highlighting risks such as discrimination, cost-driven inequities, and privacy issues and signalling that the Ministry and Health New Zealand will develop governance and evaluation processes for AI-enabled precision health services.