A growing number of clinics are adopting technology to automate the process of reminding patients about their appointments. When done correctly, appointment reminders can reduce the risk of no-shows, help patients arrive more prepared, and increase operational efficiency within the…

The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care recently announced family health teams (FHTs) “must make reasonable efforts within the Budget included in Schedule ‘B’ to ensure that the option of email communication is available to patients.” To complicate…

We are often asked by the Ocean community, “How can we collect information from our patients using Ocean Check-In Kiosks in our waiting room without jeopardizing patient privacy?” Check-in kiosks are often placed near the front desk to make them…

Fall season = flu season and when it comes to prevention, vaccines are your patient’s best line of defence. Each year, approximately 12,200 people are hospitalized and 3,500 die as a result of contracting influenza. Despite these statistics, it can…

Keywords are a powerful tool in Ocean that help you to automate patient form completion and clinical notes. Today, we want to highlight one of the most helpful features of keywords: using them in tablet rules to automatically load specific…

With our weekly software updates, there are always new features being added to Ocean. This can make it hard to keep up with the latest and greatest. This month, we clear up a few questions about the different ways you…

With over 4,000 forms, the Ocean Library is a very large – and constantly growing – clinical resource. Every day Ocean clients add to this resource with new and interesting forms. In order to make it easier to get started building your own eForms, CognisantMD…

We answer hundreds of support questions each month from Ocean users about everything from creating forms to choosing a tablet. We chose a few recent customer questions that we think may be helpful to other users. Have a question you…

We answer hundreds of support questions each month from Ocean users about everything from creating forms to choosing a tablet. We chose a few recent customer questions that we think may be helpful to other users. Have a question you…