TELUS has announced a $100M investment to create TELUS Health Solutions. The company is tagged as “backed by Emergis” and it appears to be the next phase of the company’s integration under the TELUS banner.
The idea is to bring together a portfolio of technology, expertise and resources to transform information management in the healthcare industry. When the Emergis deal was announced last December, I recall writing about such a fit.
Later, following my own close encounter with the Ontario medical system in January, I wrote:
Talk about an industry that is long overdue for efficiency improvements. What can the telecom industry do to help deliver better health care service at lower cost?
A problem with our government accounting systems is an inability to deal with capital investments that may require more than a “same budget year” payback. As such, outsourcing solutions may be a perfect fit to help modernize the way our hospitals and medical delivery specialists manage records and images.
Given the size of our national expenditures in this sector, the potential benefits are immense from even a marginal improvement in the effective use of information management.
Our taxes need such a break!