General practices taking part in the digital health Practice Incentives Program (ePIP) will have until January next year to upload three quarters' worth of shared health summaries to the My Health Record (MyHR) system, and those that have withdrawn from the incentive because they couldn't make the target are being encouraged to rejoin as soon as possible.

Payments will continue to be made on a quarterly basis but the full target does not have to be reached until January 31, 2017, the Department of Health says.