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Current Product Offerings

Ocean Healthmap

The Ocean Healthmap is a visual directory that enables searching for care providers who are using Ocean. 

Care providers using digital referrals will be able to publish up-to-date digital referral forms on their clinic’s listing. The number of directory listings accepting digital referrals in BC will grow to include all allied health, community services, and diagnostic facilities as uptake increases across the province.

Digital Referrals

Benefits:
  • Reduces reliance on fax and paper-based processes, which helps prevent lost or misdirected referrals and data entry errors.
  • Improves access to care by making it easier to search for clinics to locate and request a range of health services.
  • Streamlines data entry and improves clinical decision support using integrated forms and pre-appointment questionnaires.
  • Increases transparency by enabling secure messaging, automated notifications, and data sharing between care providers and patients.

Ocean

 
The DRO Program is actively working with EMR and acute care CIS vendors to achieve integration with Ocean. Ocean can also be used without integration through their web portal. Care providers and administrative staff who are using an integrated solution benefit from additional features Ocean has to offer such as auto-population of information from their clinical system into the digital referral. 

Current integrated EMR vendors include: 
• WELLHealth Oscar Pro
• Telus Med Access
• QHR Accuro

More EMR and hospital CIS systems (such as Cerner and Meditech) will be integrated over the next several months.

 
eReferrals are electronic templates for communication. They enable all necessary patient information to be transferred from one provider to the other, ensuring the availability of up-to-date information. 

Benefits: 
  • Support the full referral workflow 
  • Contain logic to assist with triage 
  • Include mandatory fields to ensure complete referrals are sent 
  • Enable auto-population of key patient, provider and clinical information when using an integrated EMR 
  • Enable sorting and filtering of referrals for improved tracking and management 
  • Allow status updates and notifications for senders and receivers 
  • Include secure messaging between sending and receiving clinics to enable efficient communication throughout the referral process 
  • Allows sending providers to update referrals with new information while the patient is waiting to be seen 
  • Enables email notifications and pre-appointment information to be sent to patients 
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