It's been a big week in national eHealth projects with the Australian Digital Health Agency announcing some serious growth in connections to the My Health Record in the community pharmacy sector. More general practices have also connected over the last year to register a substantial 92 per cent of all general practices – we don't think there will be any more growth there as some GPs will permanently opt themselves out – but it looks like the pharmacy sector is seeing some benefit in signing up, even without financial incentives.

There was also some news in the pathology sector, with NT Health revealing it hopes to be the first jurisdiction in the country to add links in the pathology reports it uploads to the My Health Record to the Lab Tests Online (LTO) website. This excellent little resource has been around for a decade or more and provides a wealth of information about the often obscure world of pathology, so much so that the rumour is more medical students use it than the general public.