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Cortico Release Notes - September 25, 2026

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Cortico Release Notes - September 25, 2026

Cortico 32.8 will be released to clinics on Thursday, October 1st 2026

Last updated on 25 Sept, 2026

Cortico Web Release:

1. Updates to Appointment Booking

1.1 - Fixed an issue where a pharmacy's "geographies served" configuration prevented it from appearing in pharmacy search.


2. Updates to payments

2.1 - Added an option to block patients from booking appointments until any unpaid invoices or fees are paid.


3. Updates to new patient sign-up form

3.1 - The "How did you hear about us?" question is now optional.

3.2 - Added a Unit/Suite # field to the patient's address.


4. Updates to patient tasks

4.1 - UI layout updates to the staff task list page.


5. Updates to Clinic Settings

5.1 - Fixed an issue where the fax number could not be edited on the Clinic Profile page.

5.2 - Fixed an issue where saving a Location could overwrite its Address Note with the street address.

5.3 - Updated the icons on the Clinic Profile page.


6. Updates to provider home

6.1 - Staff with 2FA enabled through email only are now sent their 2FA code automatically at sign-in.

6.2 - Fixed an issue where staff sign-in did not redirect to Provider Home when staff 2FA was enabled.

6.3 - [Accuro] Added the option to search for patients by email.


7. Updates to patient forms

7.1 - Generated form response PDFs now include the patient's name, date of birth, PHN, and MRP in the header.


8. Updates to EMR integrations

8.1 - [PSS] Added authentication to API webhook callbacks for appointment booking and document upload.

8.2 - [MedAccess] The EMR connection now recovers automatically once incorrect credentials in Cortico are corrected.

8.3 - [MedAccess] Fixed an issue where updated email addresses and phone numbers were not immediately reflected in patient messaging.

8.4 - [Accuro] Added API support for attaching labs in patient messaging.


9. Other updates

9.1 - Added a "Read" status on the Email Logs page for emails sent through secure or two-way patient messaging.

9.2 - Added the postal code to the clinic address in the footer.

9.3 - [Cerebro] Clinics can now be sorted by Total FTEs on the Clinics page.

9.4 - [Network] Updates to the clinic claim workflow.

9.5 - [Network] Fixed an issue where clinic directory pages sometimes returned an error.

9.6 - [Network] Cleanup of clinic specialty tags, including correcting mislabelled clinics and adding new directory tags.


Cortico Plug-in:

1. Messaging

1.1 - Fixed an issue in provider messaging where marking a conversation as unread changed the other user's read status from "Read by" back to "Sent".

1.2 - Fixed an issue where canned replies using {{language}}, {{province}}, and {{address}} did not populate and showed as "undefined".

1.3 - Fixed an issue where the chat header could display a patient name from another clinic.

1.4 - [Accuro] Labs can now be added as attachments in patient messaging.

1.5 - Fixed an issue where conversation search in Provider Home messaging returned incorrect or inconsistent results compared with the plug-in.

1.6 - Fixed issues with conversation labelling and icons in external provider messaging.


2. Cortico AI

2.1 - Improved AI chat response times.

2.2 - Added citations to AI chat.

2.3 - MOAs can now configure clinic-specific Inbox Assistant automation, so documents are assigned to the correct provider and classified accurately.

2.4 - Added the AI referral assistant to Provider Home messaging, so providers can chat with it to get a formatted referral and reminders about missing information.

2.5 - Cleanup of the AI chat system prompt.


3. UI/UX Improvements

3.1 - Referral status icon tooltips now show when each checkpoint was reached, making referral progress easier to track.

3.2 - Closing all conversations now shows a proper blank state.

3.3 - Reduced the visual weight of the "This is a closed conversation" message.

3.4 - Updated the group conversation icons.

3.5 - New design for the patient header.

3.6 - New design for the patient subject.


4. Appointment Actions

4.1 - Fixed an issue where copied form responses containing Hernia Location Grid or E-Signature questions appeared as raw data instead of the response.


5. Annotate & Fax

5.1 - Fixed an issue where clicking "Message" closed the Annotator before the annotated document could be saved.


6. Metrics & Monitoring

6.1 - AI chat generation stats now record the slowest duration of each turn phase, and error monitoring now reports context-window truncation, so long waits and dropped history are visible without a provider report (internal monitoring, no user-visible change).


7. Testing

7.1 - Fixed failing E2E tests following recent UI refactors (internal test fix, no user-visible change).

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