The flurry of activity in the primary healthcare sector continued to dominate the news this week, with the big guns in the private pathology sector all now signing on to connect to the My Health Record, patient education getting a run and patient portals also in the news.

But while our most popular story for the week was the news that Primary and ACL are joining Sonic in working towards uploading private pathology reports to the national system, there was also news about other big public initiatives kicking off, including the cervical cancer screening program renewal and the second tranche of practices going live as Health Care Homes.