Sydney Local Health District has massively ramped up its Royal Prince Alfred Virtual Hospital (rpavirtual) since the coronavirus pandemic began, rapidly redesigning its service to help manage 446 COVID-19 positive patients either at home or in special accommodation hotels since March.

rpavirtual has also seen a big increase in nursing and medical staff deployed to the service and a reconfiguration of its electronic medical record (eMR) to handle the crisis, while also capturing real-time data from wearable devices provided to patients.