Find every medical facility in NZ

One in ten local searches are for physicians or surgeons according to the Yellow Pages Association.

Zenbu now has the medical industry well covered with the addition of over 5000 medical facility entries which means you can find your nearest hospital, pharmacy, podiatrist, dentist, osteopath, chiropractor or optometrist. This data came from the Ministry of Health public register of facilities in the Health Practitioner Index. Like most government obtained data it is a little thin on details providing only a name and address but this is powerful, basic information and gives the Zenbu community an excellent base on which to add further details such as phone numbers and websites.

Big thanks to Alicia Webb, Team Leader Identity Data Management, Information Directorate at the Ministry of Health for her exceptional help in making this information even more readily accessible to the public through Zenbu.

October 2009 on Zenbu

There were 5,425 edits from 118 different users in October with 110,000 unique visitors and over 160,000 pageviews. The biggest editors were

zenbu	4694
pb12	195
garyt	81
burgla	79
brownees172	59
GaryMck	43
MauriceWinn	23
hoogy	18
jonzee	16
rodo	12

Nice one team! The bulk of the Zenbu numbers was made up of the entry of every Early Childhood Centre (kindergartens and childcare centres) nationwide from a Ministry of Education list. I’m not actively looking for any of these myself but I know that a lot my friends soon will be so it’s great to have this available.

The number of edits on Zenbu will always be several orders of magnitude smaller than the number of views, but as the visibility of Zenbu data scales up, up and away (with increased exposure on search engines and third party sites) we will pull in more and more editors. Reducing the “barriers to entry” is important which is why we try to make the process of editing so simple that anyone can do it with zero training. We do appreciate the ideas we get from the community about how to improve this so please keep that coming.

Zenbu NZ now has well over 82,000 listings, 6 figures isn’t far away and that is exciting!