The Ocean server upgrade scheduled for the evening of March 26th, 2026 contains the following improvements and fixes.
Ocean will be intermittently unavailable between 10:00 - 11:00 PM EST while the upgrade is being deployed. To view all scheduled Ocean server upgrade dates, check out the Ocean Server Upgrade Schedule.
Provider Network
Improvements
New Ocean Open APIs are now available for Regional Authority sites to retrieve export data (listings, sites, users) to support automated reporting and data workflows.
The Regional Authority listing export now includes additional audit and metadata fields.
Enhanced the integration error notification emails by including the referral reference identifier of an undelivered payload and additional clarity on next steps for troubleshooting.
Improved Ontario Provincial Care Coordination Gateway (PCCG) connectivity by ensuring outbound FHIR referral payloads always contain at least one identifier in the Practitioner and Patient resources (Ontario Health).
Ocean directory listings in test-mode now include a metadata ‘test’ tag in the upload sync to the Ontario Provincial Health Services Directory (PHSD), so that test referrals can be clearly identified and filtered (Ontario Health).
Fixed Bugs
- Resolved an issue so that resubmitted referrals will correctly update the OSCAR Pro consultation status back to an ‘active’ state.
- Resolved a bug that was causing misalignment between data and column headers when exporting referrals from the eReferrals & eConsults page.
Patient Engagement
Improvements
Team-Based Booking links can now support multiple grouped schedules, giving clinics more flexibility when configuring booking options.
Added a filter to Website Forms folders to select a specific ‘received’ date range and improved related query logic, to make filtering faster and easier.
Fixed Bugs
- Resolved an issue so that all online appointment bookings sent via the FHIR Patient Engagement integration contain the associated practitioner.
Platform
Improvements
Improved PSS appointment synchronization for online booking by increasing the number of appointments fetched per request and improving configurability.
Updated Patient Engagement licence pricing (effective April 1, 2026).