The Ocean server upgrade scheduled for the evening of May 7th, 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 Feature- eSubmissions: launched a new Ocean feature for securely sending form submissions to trusted third-party or government recipients. eSubmissions support form-based workflows where information needs to be sent, tracked, and managed through a dedicated submission process, such as specialized drug authority requests. With this initial release, users can send and receive eSubmissions, manage them through dedicated dashboards, view submission details and history, exchange messages and notes, manage attachments, track status updates, and identify submissions that need review. (Note: Please contact OceanMD for more information about which provinces are offering eSubmissions)
- Disabled the ability for a referral sender to cancel an active referral that has been sent to a receiver using the Ontario Health eDigital Transfer (eDT) mechanism. The sender will be presented with a clear in-product explanation when they attempt to cancel. (Ontario Health)
- Updated Provincial Care Coordination Gateway (PCCG) payloads for embedded website referral forms to consistently include requester organization details when required. (Ontario Health)
- Updated Regional Authority export APIs to return results in JSON format for easier integration and reporting.
Fixed Bugs
- Resolved an issue with EMR notification workflows so that EMR charts that were automatically generated on forwarded referrals are now updated with referral PDFs when the referral is subsequently declined.
Platform
Improvements
- Integration settings now hide saved authentication credentials (e.g. API keys/ secrets/ passwords) and provide safer “compare” and “change” options without ever displaying the stored value.
- Augmented security auditing for password resets and changes, including when an Ocean administrator resets a user’s password, so these actions are easier to find and investigate.
- Improved performance when loading patient information by removing a duplicate lookup.
- Introduced distributed Spring Integration queue support so messages are handled more reliably in horizontally scaled (multi-server) environments.