The big news this week in digital health was the expansion of Australia's roll out of electronic prescriptions to metropolitan Sydney, following the fast-track implementation in metropolitan Melbourne and then the rest of Victoria as a weapon in that state's battle against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Also this week we saw some rare movement in the secure messaging arena, with a number of clinical information system vendors and secure messaging services now having successfully completed the implementation of new interoperability standards that will hopefully allow clinicians and healthcare organisations to more easily exchange clinical information electronically.