Consentic vs Coviu for Specialist Practices

Consentic vs Coviu

Consentic explains the procedure. Coviu gets the appointment ready.

Consentic was built by doctors for informed consent: animated procedure explanations, questions that check the patient understood and a signed record, including in hospital. Many specialist practices also use it for the forms patients fill in before an appointment: registration, routine consent and assignment of benefit. That is the job Coviu is built for. Coviu doesn’t handle hospital paperwork or forms that pass between clinicians and hospitals.

What is Coviu?

Coviu started as an Australian telehealth platform and has grown into a way to get every appointment ready. It sits beside your practice management system, sends each patient the forms their appointment type needs, reminds anyone who hasn’t finished and writes the answers into the patient record. One board shows your team what is still outstanding.

Works with Gentu, Halaxy, MediRecords, Cliniko and Nookal. Patients complete everything on their phone from one link, with no app or login.

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 integrated with Gentu, a Medicare assignment of benefit consent workflow, digital forms and surveys, reminders and an admin dashboard for tracking completion. Data is stored on Australian servers.

Coviu

Consentic

Explaining a procedure

Peer-reviewed animated explanations of procedures

Questions that check the patient understood

Consent content translated into other languages

Built for hospitals and clinical trials

Getting each appointment ready

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 board of every upcoming 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 and we set them up with you.

Match them to appointment types

Decide 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. Add more appointment types as you go.

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

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
✓ Build your own forms or bring the ones you use

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
✓ Step in on any patient, any time

Visibility

One board for every appointment

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

✓ Resend a link while the patient is on the phone
✓ Know 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. Coviu doesn’t work in the hospital space and isn’t trying to.

Ideal for: practices where high-stakes procedural consent is the priority.

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, routine consent and assignment of benefit, for every patient, every time. Coviu sends the right forms by appointment type, reminds patients who haven’t finished, shows what is outstanding on one board and writes the answers into your PMS.

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. If you need to explain a procedure and record informed consent, Consentic is built for that. If you need registration, routine consent and assignment of benefit sent, chased and written into your PMS for every appointment, Coviu is built for that.

Consentic focuses on informed consent: explaining a procedure and recording that the patient understood. Coviu focuses on the appointment: sending every patient the forms their appointment type needs, chasing what's outstanding and writing the answers 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 board and writes the details into your PMS.

Yes. 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.

Yes. Consentic offers a Medicare assignment of benefit consent workflow with reminders and tracking.

Yes. Consentic offers patient registration integrated with Gentu. Coviu integrates with Gentu, Halaxy, MediRecords, Cliniko and Nookal.

Registration and demographic details write into the patient record field by field, and a PDF of the completed form saves to the patient's file. What writes back varies by PMS. In Gentu, for example, questionnaire responses save as a PDF rather than into separate fields.

You set which forms go with each appointment type, and when they go out. Coviu reads your appointment book and sends them.

Coviu reminds them on the timing you set. Anything still outstanding shows on your 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 is hosted in Australia. Consentic also stores data on Australian servers.

Yes. Telehealth is part of the same platform, so you can see who has arrived alongside what's outstanding for their appointment.

We set Coviu up with you, including your forms and appointment types, so you can start with one appointment type and add more as you go.