Consentic vs Coviu for Specialist Practices

Consentic vs Coviu

Consentic explains the procedure. Coviu gets every appointment ready.

Consentic is a specialist tool for one high-stakes moment: explaining a procedure and recording informed consent. Many practices also use it for registration and routine forms. That's the part Coviu is built for: the right forms for every appointment type, reminders until they're done, and answers written into your PMS. Coviu handles forms patients complete themselves, not hospital paperwork.

What is Coviu?

Coviu started as an Australian telehealth platform. Today it also handles the paperwork before each appointment: sending patients the forms their appointment type needs, chasing what's missing and writing the answers into your PMS. It sits beside your practice management software, and one tracking board shows your team what is still to come back.

Telehealth runs from the same patient link as the forms, and payments are coming soon. Works with Gentu, Halaxy, MediRecords, Cliniko and Nookal, with no app or login for patients.

What is Consentic?

Consentic is an Australian digital consent platform, founded by doctors in 2018. Its core is informed medical consent: peer-reviewed animated explanations of a procedure, questions that check the patient understood, electronic signing and a secure record of consent. Consentic says its approach is proven in two randomised controlled trials to improve patient knowledge and satisfaction, and that it facilitates one informed consent in Australia every three minutes.

It is used by proceduralists such as gastroenterologists and dermatologists, and by hospitals and clinical trials. Alongside consent, Consentic offers patient registration, digital forms and surveys, reminders and an admin dashboard for tracking completion.

Coviu

Consentic

Procedural consent

Peer-reviewed animated explanations of procedures

Questions that check the patient understood

Consent content translated into other languages

Built for hospitals and clinical trials

Every appointment

Scored questionnaires

Integrates with Gentu

Also works with Halaxy, MediRecords, Cliniko and Nookal

Not listed

Forms sent automatically by appointment type

Registration, consent and assignment of benefit forms

Automatic reminders for incomplete forms

One tracking board of every appointment and what is outstanding

Limited

Patient details written into your PMS field by field

Limited

Patients and data

Complete on any phone, no app or login

Electronic signatures

Telehealth in the same platform

Hosted in Australia

Bring your patient forms

Send us the forms your patients complete in Consentic today. We set them up with you.

Connect your PMS and choose your forms

Link Coviu to your practice management software, then choose which forms each appointment type needs and when they go out.

Start with one appointment type

Patients get one link and complete it on their phone. Their answers are written into your PMS, so there's nothing to retype. Add more appointment types as you go.

Automation

The right forms go out by themselves

Set which forms each appointment type needs, and when: on booking, days ahead or the morning of. Coviu reads your appointment book and sends them.

✓ One link per patient, no app or login
✓ Your forms, your workflows, set up for your practice

Reminders

The chasing runs itself

Patients who haven’t finished get reminders on the schedule you set. Once they’re done, the reminders stop.

✓ You set the timing
✓ Resend a link any time, even while the patient is on the phone

Write-back

Answers go into your PMS, not an inbox

Registration and demographic details write into the patient record field by field, and the full form saves to their file. Nobody downloads, uploads or retypes it.

✓ You choose per form: straight in, or a quick approve
✓ Works with Gentu, Halaxy, MediRecords, Cliniko and Nookal

Visibility

One tracking board for every appointment

See every upcoming appointment across the week: what has been sent, what has come back and what is overdue.

✓ Know what needs attention, before it becomes a problem
✓ See who is ready before the day starts

Choose Consentic

Best for proceduralists, hospitals and clinical trials where the job is explaining a procedure and recording informed consent.

Consentic shows the patient a peer-reviewed animation of what will happen, asks questions to check they understood and records their consent. Consentic says two randomised trials show its approach improves what patients know about their procedure. It also handles consent completed in hospital or with a clinician, and forms that move between doctors and hospitals.

Ideal for: proceduralists, hospitals and clinical trials that need a specialist tool for informed consent.

Choose Coviu

Best for specialist practices where the job is getting every appointment ready.

Most paperwork before a specialist appointment isn't about explaining a procedure. It is registration, medical history, scored questionnaires, routine consent and assignment of benefit, for every patient, every time.

Coviu is only for forms your patients complete themselves. It doesn’t handle hospital paperwork or forms that pass between clinicians and hospitals.

Ideal for: specialist practices on Gentu, Halaxy, MediRecords, Cliniko or Nookal that use Consentic mainly for registration and forms.

Use both

If your clinicians rely on Consentic’s procedure animations, hospital consent or clinician-to-hospital forms, keep it for that. Move the forms your patients complete themselves before their appointment to Coviu.

Ideal for: proceduralists who need informed consent and want registration and assignment of benefit off the front desk.

Consentic vs Coviu FAQs

It depends on the job. Consentic specialises in one moment: explaining a procedure and recording informed consent. Coviu covers the paperwork before every appointment: registration, routine consent and assignment of benefit, sent, chased and written into your PMS.

No. Coviu handles consent forms and electronic signatures, but it doesn’t provide animated procedure explanations or comprehension testing. If you need those, Consentic is built for them. Coviu is also built for forms patients complete themselves, not for hospital paperwork or forms completed by clinicians.

Yes. Keep Consentic for procedural consent, hospital consent and forms that pass between clinicians and hospitals. Use Coviu for the forms your patients complete themselves before their appointment. Many practices use Consentic mainly for registration and forms, and for those Coviu covers the whole job.

If you send each registration form by hand, Coviu sends them automatically by appointment type, reminds patients who haven't finished, shows you what's outstanding on one tracking board and writes the details into your PMS.

Yes. Consentic offers a Medicare assignment of benefit consent workflow with reminders and tracking. Coviu sends assignment of benefit forms with the rest of each patient's forms, reminds patients who haven't signed and saves the signed form to their file.

What writes back varies by PMS. In some, questionnaire responses save as a PDF rather than into separate fields.

Coviu reminds them on the timing you set. Anything still outstanding shows on your tracking board, and you can resend a link at any time.

Yes, for the forms your patients complete themselves, such as registration, routine consent and assignment of benefit. Send them to us and we set them up with you. Coviu doesn’t handle hospital paperwork or forms that pass between clinicians and hospitals.

No. Patients get one link and complete everything on their phone or computer.

Yes. Coviu stores your data in Australia. The only exception is text messages to patients, which are sent through a provider that processes them overseas. Consentic also stores data on Australian servers.

Yes. Telehealth runs in the same platform, and the waiting room shows who has arrived for their consult.