General practices registered for the practice incentives program eHealth (ePIP) incentive have been given a six-month extension to the deadline for uploading shared health summaries to the My Health Record, after an estimated 1500 of the 5000 registered practices missed the target for the first quarter.

According to information obtained by the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM), the Minister for Health has agreed to a temporary amendment to the requirements for the ePIP, allowing practices to build towards the target by January 31, 2017, rather than in three separate quarterly targets.