RE:RE:RE:RE:Telus acquisition of NightingalePerhaps you remember the wasted $1.3B ehealth Ontario fiasco and the near $1B BC fiasco but since then various reports have said EMR has become a powerful tool already (https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/e-health-records-saved-medical-system-1-3b-in-6-years-1.1384119) Infoway itself has gall to say 98% of Canadian have an eRecord when that might be only one item, not a complete or holistic medical record. I do not see any reference to a National system by infoway so are you aware that Telus is somehow working with infoway support, even if just agreement and not financial?
By 2013 Telus had been in EMR initiative for 10 years and had spent over $1B. At that time they stated the following:
With the acquisition of Ontario’s largest EMR provider, TELUS Health will further expand its reach in the first line of care, now providing EMR solutions to 9,000 Canadian physicians across the country, and impacting more than 25 million patient interactions each year. TELUS Health currently provides solutions to all major stakeholders in the health system, including hospitals, pharmacies, and extended healthcare providers such as physiotherapists and chiropractors. For its part, QHR's Accuro and Medeo cover 7000 'providers; and 15MM patient records and is touted as largest single EMR in Canada (incl Nova Scotia).
I guess what I am saying is that infoway is probably irrelevant but with the cash support from Telus it is probably the combined intention to make Accuro and Medeo the standards for all Canada, supplanting all the software options that telus has to date acquired...a massive undertaking...but I am still unclear as to why Telus did not fold in QHR at this time and how we might now value QHR.