Trials will be held in the next year in the Blacktown-Mt Druitt region of western Sydney and the Dubbo-Coonamble region of central western NSW for the Child Digital Health Record, a national approach to harmonising early childhood data currently held in paper-based baby books.

Trials will also be held at the Mater Hospital and Cairns Hospital in Queensland of a digital health pregnancy record, which will bring together in digital form the cards carried by women to their antenatal appointments.