Best Healthcare IT Companies in New Zealand
The 61 best Healthcare IT companies in New Zealand in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Alimetry.
If you want to know which Healthcare IT companies in New Zealand are actually backed by real capital, this directory tracks 61 of them, ranked by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum. Total disclosed funding across the cohort sits at $77M, which sounds modest until you see how concentrated it is: Orion Health ($26M) and Alimetry ($29M) together account for more than two-thirds of that pool, with Adherium ($11M) a distant third.
So where's the sector heading? Global Healthcare IT is forecast to grow from roughly $96.9B to $344.1B by 2030, a 14.1% CAGR that's being driven by telehealth adoption, automation demand, and mHealth uptake. App-layer data backs that up: median install growth is running at roughly +16% YoY across healthcare and life sciences apps. I'd also flag that, as 2017 research shows, digital deployment strategies correlate with measurable patient outcomes, which is exactly the kind of evidence funding committees want to see. You won't find a unicorn in this New Zealand cohort yet, but with investors like Icehouse Ventures and New Zealand Growth Capital Partners active across the list, the pipeline looks live.
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Our analysis of 248 Healthcare IT companies
$18.1b in tracked funding; 87% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Healthcare IT companies in New Zealand
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alimetry Provider of a non-invasive device for detecting gastric disorders | $29M | 20 mo ago | Series A | Armen Gharibans Co-Founder / CTO | 2019 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+15 | 25 patents Non‑invasive gastrointestinal monitoring and surface colonic mapping using electrode patch systems | 1 award |
| 2 | Orion Health End to End population health and precision medicine solutions for the healthcare community | $26M | 145 mo ago | Acquired | Niraj Jain Founder | 1993 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+29 | — | — |
| 3 | Adherium Smart inhaler for checking medication adherence | $11M | 68 mo ago | Public | Paul Mastoridis CEO | 2001 | Microsoft ASP.NETAzure Front DoorAmazon ALB+9 | 74 patents Inhaler compliance monitoring and dose-counting technology for respiratory drug delivery devices | — |
| 4 | Carepatron Provider of practice management software for clinics | $5M | 34 mo ago | Seed | — | 2019 | GSAPEmotionAstro+23 | — | — |
| 5 | Kahu AI-based skin cancer diagnosis solutions for dermatologists | $3M | 60 mo ago | Seed | Stuart Dalrymple CEO | 2021 | — | 4 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 6 | HeartLab Cloud-based echocardiography data analysis tool for providers | $2M | 57 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+19 | — | 1 partnership |
| 7 | Core Schedule Provider if software solutions for hospital staff scheduling and management | $786K | 72 mo ago | Seed | Stephen Pool Founder & CEO | 2017 | WordPressMarkerMySQL+26 | — | 1 partnership |
| 8 | Noted Provider of an online client and practice management platform for health and social care professionals | $500K | 105 mo ago | Seed | Scott Pearson Founder | CSO at Noted | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 9 | RosterLab AI-based healthcare staff scheduling and rostering platform | $337K | 54 mo ago | Seed | Isaac Cleland Co-Founder | 2020 | Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+20 | — | — |
Top 12 Healthcare IT companies in New Zealand
#1
Series A · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2019 · 43 employees$29Mraised▾
Provider of a non-invasive device for detecting gastric disorders. The company has developed "Gastric Alimetry" a non-invasive device placed on the patient’s skin overlying the stomach to track the upper intestinal gastric symptoms.
- Oct 2024Series A$18M
- Mar 2022Series A$11M
#2
Seed · Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty · founded 2019 · 14 employees$5Mraised▾
Provider of practice management software for clinics. The company has developed a platform that allows medical providers to manage all of their visits, notes, invoicing, and payments in one location. Additionally, it provides a patient portal where clients can make appointments, do intake paperwork, attend telehealth appointments, and send payments.
- Aug 2023Seed$4M
- Jul 2022Seed$1M
#3
Public · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2001 · 54 employees$10.7Mraised▾
Adherium is a medical device company that manufactures and commercializes smart inhalers to check medication adherence in Asthma, COPD, and other chronic disease patients. Adherium’s proprietary platform, Smartinhaler, comprising medical devices, apps, and cloud-based management software. Sends data on when the medication was taken to mobile devices and desktop computers via Bluetooth. Also, transmits audio and visual reminders to the patient when they miss a critical dose of preventative medication. The platform is designed to help patients, caregivers, and physicians remotely monitor and manage patients’ adherence to their medication. The devices have both a CE Mark and FDA 510(k) clearance. Adherium has partnered with AstraZeneca to incorporate digital health offerings into AstraZeneca’s patient support programs for people with COPD and asthma. Collaborates with research groups and pharmaceutical companies.
- Oct 2020Post IPO$3M
- Aug 2019Conventional Debt$1.8M
- Jul 2016Post IPO$5.9M
#4
Acquired · Auckland, Auckland · founded 1993 · 1001 employees$25.5Mraised▾
Orion Health offers open technology platform that seamlessly integrates all forms of health and relevant personal data to deliver population health and precision medicine solutions across the entire health community. Makes healthcare information available anywhere by providing healthcare IT connectivity in every U.S. state and in over 30 countries worldwide –facilitating care for tens of millions of patients every day. With an inherent ability to interconnect a wide variety of healthcare information systems, Orion Health’s Amadeus, with Rhapsody Integration Engine, facilitates data acquisition and aggregation within and among payer and provider organizations, accountable care organizations, governments and health information exchanges. Amadeus stands alone as the foundation for population health management initiatives or can be combined with Orion Health’s own seamlessly integrated applications for analytics, care coordination, and patient engagement to enable end to end population health management, improve care coordination, enhance quality of care and help reduce costs.
- May 2014Series B$25.5M
#5
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2021 · 7 employees$3Mraised▾
AI-based skin cancer diagnosis solutions for dermatologists. The platform provides decision-support solutions for doctors using the skin image database that provides diagnoses for a broad range of skin cancers. The technology assists primary care physicians in screening programs and clinical tests.
- Jul 2021Seed$3M
#6
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2018 · 20 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Cloud-based echocardiography data analysis tool for providers. The company has developed software that assists with data analysis and reporting. It comes with features for AI-based data prediction, image storage, heart scanning, and more.
- Sep 2021Seed$2.5M
#7
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2020 · 4 employees$336.6Kraised▾
AI-based healthcare staff scheduling and rostering platform. The platform provides an automatic rostering solution for healthcare providers to manage the staff and patient ratio. Other features include payroll integration, demand planning, entry management, and more.
- Dec 2021Seed$336.6K
#8
Seed · Wellington, Wellington · founded 2017 · 10 employees$785.9Kraised▾
Provider of software solutions for hospital staff scheduling and management. The company provides software that is designed for managing staff schedules for different purposes such as hospitals, emergency, nursing, and more. The users are allowed to customize their teams and schedule their workflow accordingly.
- Jul 2020Seed$785.9K
#9
Seed · Wellington, Wellington · founded 2015 · 19 employees$500Kraised▾
Provider of an online client and practice management platform for health and social care professionals. The company has developed software with features for clinical workflow management, record keeping, telehealth solutions, and more. Users are allowed to book appointments, access health records of clients or patients, and other administrative tasks. The features include maintaining compreg=hensie records, maintain group sessions, access controls, booking, reporting, rostering, and integration with either system.
- Sep 2017Seed$500K
#10
Series A · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2015 · 43 employees—raised▾
The Clinician offers remote monitoring solution for doctors. The company offers patient-reported solution. Patients record their daily data using an app for doctors to analyze and compare improvement for different patients.
- May 2019Series A—
#11
Acquired · Auckland, Auckland · founded 1980 · 168 employees—raised▾
Medtech Global offers Practice Management Systems that help health professionals to manage their patients. Products include Primary Health Solutions (Evolution General Practice, Evolution Specialist, Evolution Allied Health, Medtech32); Secondary Health Solutions (Evolution HIS, MD Analyze, Shared EHR); Personal & Telehealth (ManageMyHealth, VitelMed); Data Intelligence Solutions (Clinical Business Intelligence, LinkTech); and Data Mobility Solutions (VitelMed, Medtech Digitize). Has merged with Australian Healthcare Technology Limited. The company claims to be the largest provider of technology solutions in New Zealand primary health care, and the second largest in Australia. It has offices in New Zealand, Australia, USA, and India.
#12
Late Stage · Auckland, Auckland · founded 1993—raised▾
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Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Healthcare IT coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Digital Health is moving in New Zealand
A read on the academic research around Digital Health — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 548 New Zealand-affiliated papers.
- Ministry of Health313
- University of Auckland80
- University of Otago42
- Auckland University of Technology40
- Ministry of Education14
- Health care6
- Public health6
- Health administration5
- Context (archaeology)4
- Stakeholder4
- Health care2→62
- Health informatics9→36
- Public health6→25
- Health administration4→22
- Psychological intervention1→18
- Health care6→86
- Health informatics17→82
- Public health12→66
- Health administration16→56
- Nursing research10→40
Where digital health is researched across New Zealand
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.