The last quarter of 2016 started off with a hangover from the third, with the ongoing sagas of the ePIP and the National Cancer Screening Register lingering like last week's beer on Boxing Day. Things did pick up a bit though with bright, fresh faces fronting the new digital health agency and even some old stagers from the secure messaging industry getting a new lease on life through what seems a concerted effort to get things right this time.

The government then fell into a new round of skirmishes with the general practice community over the Health Care Homes initiative and it all fell to pieces, but on the good news front, the state and territory governments and health services seem to be purring away nicely with some pretty enormous eHealth infrastructure projects, barring one or two missteps, natch.