Switching from Ocean? Here's exactly what you'd save.
No per-schedule fees. No SMS charges. Booking that works in every language, for every patient — with the same EMR integrations you already rely on. See your number below, then book a demo right here on this page.
The cost differences add up fast.
No per-schedule fees
Ocean bills per schedule — a clinician with two schedules pays twice. Empower bills per clinician, once, no matter how many schedules or booking types they run.
No SMS or usage fees
Ocean charges $0.11 per SMS reminder — a high-volume clinic can rack up hundreds of dollars a month just in text messages. Empower's reminders are included, always.
Every language, not a limited list
Ocean's booking flow supports a limited set of languages. Empower's patient-facing booking works in every language — no exceptions, no missing dialect that quietly excludes part of your roster.
Higher patient adoption
Ocean's exact-record-match and health-card gating routes patients back to the phone. Empower is built to let more of your patients book online in the first place — new, returning, rostered, unattached. Why uptake is worth more than the licence line →
Ontario Health OAB subsidy eligible
Empower qualifies for the Ontario Health OAB subsidy, and we supply the documentation. Applied against a lower base licence fee, it goes further.
No add-on stacking
Ocean's kiosk, website-form, and Advanced Clinic Booking add-ons each carry their own monthly fee. What we quote is what you pay.
Calculate your savings vs. Ocean.
Enter your clinic's numbers below — this calculator is scoped to Empower vs. Ocean only, using each vendor's published pricing.
Your clinic
Your online-booking share today is 35% of all appointments. Every appointment that doesn't get booked online is a phone call your staff handle by hand — and a slot more likely to be missed without an easy self-reschedule.
Estimates for planning purposes only, based on Ocean's and Empower's published list pricing as of July 2026, and on the benefit model documented at roi-evidence.html. Not a quote. Subsidy eligibility is subject to Ontario Health program rules. Ocean is a trademark of its respective owner; used here for comparison only. Want the full multi-vendor calculator? See it here.
Empower vs. Ocean, feature for feature.
| Dimension | Empower Health | Ocean (OceanMD) |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per clinician, one price, no per-schedule multiplier | Per schedule — a clinician with 2 schedules pays for 2 |
| SMS / reminder fees | Included, $0 | $0.11 per SMS reminder |
| Add-ons | Included — no à la carte stacking | Advanced Clinic Booking, kiosk, and website-form add-ons each billed separately |
| Ontario Health OAB subsidy | Eligible — documentation supplied | Eligible on qualifying tiers |
| Languages | Every language | Limited language set |
| Who can book | New, returning, rostered, unattached; with or without health card | Health card + exact-record match commonly required; non-matches routed to phone |
| Design philosophy | All patients in — high uptake is the design goal | Restriction-first configuration; booking limited by status/frequency rules |
| EMR integrations | Accuro, OSCAR, PS Suite, CHR, Meditech (production hospital-EHR) | Accuro, OSCAR, PS Suite, CHR |
| Same-day / high volume | Core design — clinics run 100% online, thousands of appts/week | Supported with configuration |
| Value of the uptake gap | Every point of uptake is staff time saved and no-show slots recovered — modelled and sourced | Restriction-first gating caps how much of that value a clinic can ever realise |
| Migration support | Included — our team manages your switch and go-live | — |
Based on public information as of July 2026. If we've got something wrong, tell us: team@empower.ca. Full multi-vendor breakdown: compare.html.
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