WELL';s OceanMD to Roll Out eReferral & eOrders Platform to Help Providers and Patients in British Columbia Digitize & Modernize Clinical Workflows
- OceanMD has signed a $38.5 million contract with British Columbia's Provincial Health Services Authority to provide digital healthcare services. The Ocean Platform will streamline healthcare processes and improve efficiency for providers. This partnership marks a significant step towards transforming the Canadian healthcare landscape.
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- WELL's subsidiary OceanMD has signed a
contract with$38.5 million British Columbia 's Provincial Health Services Authority to provide an array of digital services, such as eReferrals, eConsults, and eOrders to help further empower providers with best-in-class digital interoperability tools. - This is the third Canadian province, in addition to
Ontario andNova Scotia , that has materially partnered with OceanMD to enable eReferrals, eOrders, and eConsult requests. - The Ocean Platform currently supports almost 1 million eReferrals and eConsults annually and is
Canada 's largest community of connected healthcare solutions. - The Ocean Platform will streamline healthcare processes by integrating various clinical systems, enabling digital patient engagement, and reducing paperwork, thus improving efficiency for providers, and granting patients easier access to their health data.
OceanMD's ground-breaking platform is set to launch an array of digital services, such as eReferrals, eConsults, and eOrders, within
"Our team at OceanMD has worked tirelessly to create and refine our platform, and this contract with
The decision on the vendor for the DRO program was made after extensive consultation with providers, staff, patients, and experts, including clinical leaders, regional health authorities, Doctors of BC, and the Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of BC (NNPBC) Association. These consultations addressed pain points and future needs and were also part of the provincial RFP process. As the project progresses, continuous engagement with care providers, patients, and staff will ensure that the solution minimizes disruption and that ensure users are adequately trained.
The Ocean Platform, connecting over 30 leading healthcare systems and thousands of healthcare providers, establishes OceanMD as
OceanMD's track record, with over 80,000 eReferrals and eConsults sent each month across hundreds of healthcare pathways and specialties, demonstrates its success in deploying provincial solutions for eReferrals, eConsults, and eOrders. OceanMD has notably proven its ability to reduce wait times by as much as 52 days, including a 35-day reduction in referral processing alone, thereby significantly improving patient access to care. In
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WELL's mission is to tech-enable healthcare providers. We do this by developing the best technologies, services, and support available, which ensures healthcare providers are empowered to positively impact patient outcomes. WELL's comprehensive healthcare and digital platform includes extensive front and back-office management software applications that help physicians run and secure their practices. WELL's solutions enable more than 31,000 healthcare providers between the US and
The Provincial Health Services Authority provides specialized health care services and programs to communities across
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