An extra 16 implementations of NSW Health's electronic medications management (eMeds) program went live last month, bringing the total number statewide to 165.

NSW Health has upped the pace in the ambitious program, with almost 100 health facilities going live in the last 12 months, including at Lithgow Hospital, the first site in the Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District. A further 37 are due to go live by mid 2020.

Many are rural and remote facilities that are part of the rural eMeds program involving the six rural local health districts that have got together to roll out the Cerner system across 115 sites by the end of the year.