Some old faces from last year's list made the hot top 20 most-read stories on Pulse+IT in 2016, and there were even some lurkers from the year before. Anything with Telstra Health, EPAS or ePIP in the headline was an instant winner, but this year they were joined by Mediscare, Epic and Royal Melbourne Hospital's infamous Qbot worm in the top shelf.

The goings on at the new Australian Digital Health Agency were also of interest as were the new owners of MedicalDirector and the big four who made it onto the NT's shortlist for new clinical systems, but it was a new initiative that turned into another topic of dispute between the government and the general practice community that took out the top spot.