TELUS Health to become Canada’s largest electronic medical record provider

With the addition of PS Suite EMR from MD Practice Software LP, TELUS Health will be positioned to unleash the full potential of EMRs in Canada with national footprint, expanded reach and connectivity across the healthcare system

New mobile application enables on-the-go access to prescription drug information, history and refills across multiple platforms

McKesson Canada, owner of the PROXIM and PROXIMed banners, selects TELUS Health’s pharmacological record access solution for its patients

Plan members benefit from easy point-of-care electronic claims submissions and accelerated reimbursement

Award highlights TELUS’ achievements in health and technology to improve patient outcomes

Lawson Health Research Institute today announced an innovative project that uses a smartphone and web application (app) specially developed to help people living with mental illness play a more active role in their recovery process.

Allied healthcare providers will soon be able to submit electronic patient claims directly to Desjardins Financial Security through TELUS’ web-based eClaims service

Acquisition strengthens TELUS’ ability to use technology to improve health outcomes

A paperless option to enable participating healthcare specialists to electronically submit claims at the point-of-care on behalf of clients

TELUSHealth.com provides healthcare professionals with the resources, tools and technology to help improve health outcomes for Canadians

TELUS’ web-based eClaims service enables physiotherapists, chiropractors, optometrists and opticians to electronically submit claims directly to Sun Life on behalf of patients.

Electronic system gives physiotherapists, chiropractors and visioncare providers the ability to submit claims online, expediting the process and leaving more time to spend with patients.

Montreal, PQ, May 30, 2012 – TELUS Health today announced it has signed an agreement with the Newfoundland & Labrador Centre for Health Information (the Centre) to support the next phase in the province’s deployment of an interoperable Electronic Health Record (iEHR).

Montreal, PQ, May 28, 2012 – TELUS Health has partnered with Sanofi Canada to launch STARsystem, an innovative private web-based platform that gives diabetics free anywhere, anytime access to personalized education and self-management health tools. The STARsystem platform is available to diabetics who purchase BGStar and iBGStar blood glucose monitors, both developed by Sanofi Canada.

Montreal, PQ, and Paris, France, May 25, 2012 – TELUS Health and Orange have joined forces to develop innovative remote monitoring solutions for patients with chronic diseases. The Calydial solution, a pilot that remotely monitored patients with kidney disease, in collaboration with Grenoble University Hospital, Calydial dialysis centers of Lyon, France and AGDUC health centre in Grenoble, France, yielded positive results; patient satisfaction and patient support both improved . Yesterday, the Calydial solution was awarded the Innovation Prize in the telemedicine category at Health IT, France’s preeminent information technology trade show for hospitals and other medical establishments.

Toronto, ON, May 16, 2012 – TELUS Health today announced a two-year extension to its agreement with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for the Health Network System (HNS). HNS provides computerized claim adjudication, pharmacy payment, and several batch and administrative support applications, to the OPDP. Pharmacies submit drug benefit claims electronically and the HNS validates eligibility, provides drug utilization review information messages, authorizes payment and calculates the government share of eligible prescription costs.

Toronto, ON – May 1, 2012 – TELUS Health Solutions has announced that Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada has signed an agreement with TELUS to offer benefit plan members an easy way to submit their claims electronically, right from the offices of their healthcare providers.

Montreal PQ, April 18, 2012 – For Brunet customers using the MaSanté tool on brunet.ca, TELUS Pharma Space has added a family application which provides customers with the ability to designate a caregiver (family member or other) and give them secure access to his or her account. For example, a woman taking care of her elderly mother would be able to go online and through her own account, renew her mother’s prescriptions and view her medication information.

Ottawa, ON – March 28, 2012 – TELUS Health Solutions today announced an important milestone with Queensway Carleton Hospital (QCH) to accelerate the distribution of patient clinical documentation and Admitted Patient Notifications from emergency department visits to patients’ family doctors using TELUS CareShare. More than120 family doctors are receiving emergency treatment records within hours of a patient’s emergency department visit. The six-month pilot project went live in December 2011 with more than 1350 documents being delivered to date. An additional 700 physicians are expected to be added to the program over the next few months.