The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA) has received federal funding to continue work on its Pathology Information Terminology and Unit Standardisation (PITUS) program, including work on conformance testing for software systems to assist with the My Health Record roll-out to pathology providers.

The college adopted new guidelines developed by PITUS as policy in 2014, and has now received funding from the federal Department of Health to continue the project to develop informatics standards for safer and better pathology requesting and reporting. It will also help facilitate the uptake of the standards by pathology practices.