Welcome back to a new year of the weekend edition of Pulse+IT, in which we cast our glance over the events of the week and pontificate for your reading pleasure on what we think it all means for the eHealth and health IT sector. It looks set to be a make or break year for the My Health Record as it goes opt-out at some yet-to-be-decided date towards the end of the year and 20 million people are suddenly presented with a storage receptacle for their health information.

It might be a make or break year for the Health Care Homes project as well, already off to a rocky start with delays and bickering over bundled payments. There was also a bit of a kerfuffle at the end of last year over what shared care planning software the participating practices could choose from and the accuracy of the product information about them.

Team care arrangement have been promoted as the way forward for the primary care sector but actually getting GPs and other members of the care team such as specialists and allied health to use these tools has always been a tough gig. Precedence Healthcare was one of the pioneers of shared care plans in primary care through its cdmNet product, although there are a number of others out there, but even Precedence has found the going tough and shifted its focus once it was acquired by Sonic Clinical Services. It's a struggle for all of these companies, fighting it out for a small market share.