A group of 32 general practices in the Sydney Local Health District catchment is piloting the use of HealthLink's SmartForms technology to send eReferrals for haematology consults to the Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) and Concord hospitals.

The project, also involving Canadian firm Strata Health’s PRISM referral management system and the local HealthPathways program, allows GPs to pre-populate the referral from within their desktop software, send it and receive an acknowledgement that the referral has been accepted or rejected electronically.