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NZ Medtech Scene
At the 2026 Velocity Ideas Challenge, Medtech-iQ Tāmaki Makaurau sponsored a prize which was awarded to PulseMap PAD Detector, a project developing a portable device for early detection of peripheral arterial disease using non-invasive vascular screening technology. The concept aims to support earlier identification of disease and improve access to screening.

Start-ups
All over New Zealand, hospital theatres go idle because it’s become so time-consuming to match surgeons, skilled staff and equipment. Patients wait. Lists lengthen.
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Start-ups
The students entering training today will need to competently supervise AI from their first day of practice. They’ll need sharper clinical reasoning, earlier, than any cohort before them. And it’s arriving at exactly the moment when pipeline pressure is reducing the clinical exposure available to build it. So how does a medical student develop core reasoning skills when the required resources are this stretched?