GPs and medical specialists in Queensland and northern NSW ordering diagnostic tests from Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology (SNP) will now see the resulting reports uploaded to their patients' My Health Record on a routine basis, as the Sonic Healthcare subsidiary becomes the first to offer the capability to the private sector on a large scale.

Requesting doctors must send their orders electronically from compliant practice management systems such as Best Practice and MedicalDirector to ensure the patient's Individual Healthcare Identifier (IHI) accompanies the request, which SNP says 80 per cent of GPs in the region already do.