All hospitals, community health centres and administration facilities in NSW will be connected to the state's Health Wide Area Network (HWAN) early this year, according to an update to the state's rural health plan, with the rural electronic medical record program on track for completion by October.

According to the NSW rural health plan progress report 2015, published last week, in addition to the Cerner EMR, the roll-out of the new Community Health and Outpatient Care (CHOC) system and the establishment of satellite hubs for the Non-Emergency Patient Transport Strategy for rural areas will also be completed this year.