Rodgers said he is pleased to be the first director of NSW Health's e-health and ICT strategies, but the challenge for was "where do we start?"

"There is a complex network of bespoke systems among the hospitals," he said.

NSW Health adopted the HIMS (healthcare info management society) EMR maturity model (8 levels) and has adapted and refined it.

"That's how we approached the 'where do we start' and we are ," Rodgers said.

NSW Health then went through an application procurement processes and selected a suite of products with the functionality it required. Some hospitals which were mature users of products like iSoft haven't been touched by the roll out, some are finished and some are due for completion this calendar year. It is expected 10 more hospitals will be completed this year.