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New Zealand's $16 Billion Public Health System Runs on a Single Excel Sheet
The Register's Simon Sharwood reports: The body that runs New Zealand's public health system uses a single Excel spreadsheet as the primary source of data to consolidate and manage its finances, which aren't in great shape perhaps due to the sheet's shortcomings. The spreadsheet-using agency is Hea...
The Register's Simon Sharwood reports: The body that runs New Zealand's public health system uses a single Excel spreadsheet as the primary source of data to consolidate and manage its finances, which aren't in great shape perhaps due to the sheet's shortcomings. That prediction was incorrect and HNZ blew its budget, leading to a review of its finances that last week delivered a damming report[PDF] that found the org lost "control of the critical levers that drive financial outcomes" and had an "inability to identify and respond to the disconnect between expenditure and revenue." The report also noted five big problems with the sheet used at HNZ: - Financial information was often 'hard-coded,' making it difficult to trace to the source or have updated data flow through.
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