It may have flown under the radar somewhat but when the $2 billion, 488-bed Northern Beaches Hospital opened its doors last week, the Healthscope-operated public and private hospital in Sydney's Frenchs Forest went live with a fully functional electronic medical record from Telstra Health.

The Northern Beaches EMR is put forward by Telstra Health managing director Mary Foley as an example of how the company is about to emerge from its blue sky phases of mergers and acquisition and internal restructure into the integrated health information platform provider it always proposed to be.