The quick response from the health IT sector in Australia and New Zealand to the coronavirus pandemic has been pretty impressive, with software vendors rolling out COVID-19-specific applications at a rate of knots if our technology resources page page is anything to go by.

Vendors are either tailoring new functionality to help with the crisis or in some cases waiving fees to ensure the technology is used when it's needed. An example is online appointment booking service Healthsite, which has very quickly managed to roll out a complete telehealth solution, in association with Tasmanian telehealth provider GP2U, that is integrated with Healthsite's booking system. HealthEngine also provides a similar service and both allow practices to offer private billing as well as bulk billed consultations.