08.19.2026

Today’s release includes the following updates:

bugfix

  • Fixed an issue where choosing “Send via patient app” as the patient communication method left a report review stuck. Sign stayed greyed out with “Please select a report” even though a report was attached, the review never saved, and it could only be cleared by reloading the page. On a lab review the patient was still notified that their results were ready, even though nothing had been recorded in the chart. Reviews now sign and save normally.
  • “Send via patient app” is now offered only on lab reviews, the one review type that supports it, so it no longer appears on imaging, referral, or uncategorized document reviews. It also now appears when reviewing a lab report from the panel, matching the patient chart.
  • Providers on a touch screen can now act on a medication in the Medications section of the patient summary, on the left-hand side of the patient chart. Tapping a medication there opens its detail, where Stop, Adjust, and Refill are full-size buttons and the medication name stays readable. Tapping a medication before its details had finished loading no longer blanks the patient summary. On a mouse or trackpad, including an iPad with a keyboard attached, the buttons continue to appear on the row on hover.

sdk

  • The Patient effect now allows you to manage your patient’s contacts — emergency contacts, next-of-kin, and other related persons. A contact either holds the person’s details inline, or points at another Canvas patient, which is how two patients are linked to each other. Contacts are added, modified, and removed one at a time: unlike the FHIR Patient API, where a contact left out of an update message is deleted, a contact you leave out here is untouched, and removing one is always explicit.
  • The following were added to the SDK data module so plugins can read those contacts back: