It turns out to be nice timing that we ran a poll of readers last week asking if you thought electronic medical records were now an essential technology for acute care services. The vast majority of you did – 91 per cent said yes, just nine per cent saying no – and this week we heard public hospitals are following suit, with about 65 per cent of Australian public hospitals now using one.

Digital health consultancy The Checkley Group's managing director Bruce Pedersen gave one of his now regular round-ups of the state of EMR adoption in Australia at the Sydney leg of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health's mammoth virtual summit this week. Mr Pedersen likes to keep track of who is using what and he noted that Victoria had seen the largest growth in the last two years, boosted by the Epic implementation at the Parkville precinct in Melbourne no doubt.