TELUS CareShare Software-as-a-Service offering will create ecosystem for healthcare providers to share information to improve clinical efficiency
TORONTO, ON – TELUS Health Solutions today announced a partnership with Carefx to create a unique set of services for clinicians and providers to access through a private cloud. TELUS CareShare enables care providers to securely gather information from multiple sources and then share it across the continuum of care using their own electronic medical record system (EMR) or web-based health tools. CareShare will be available via subscription or per transaction basis.
“We are pleased to partner with Carefx to bring TELUS CareShare, a truly revolutionary suite of SaaS services, to healthcare organizations,” said Paul Lepage, senior vice-president, TELUS Health Solutions. “Carefx brings an extensive history of clinical systems development with world-class expertise in building tools for interoperability and clinical workflows. TELUS brings extensive communications experience, strong and mature capabilities in hosting and managing health infrastructures, and health information technology products that move data across the continuum of care from claims processing to hospital clinical information systems to consumer health.
“By leveraging TELUS’ extensive communications infrastructure we are able to offer our customers the ability to share information seamlessly and in near-real-time across devices and organizations,” said Andrew Hurd, Chairman and CEO of Carefx. “With cloud computing, managed services and licensed services healthcare providers will be able to focus less on IT management and more on coordinated, collaborative care and emerging models for medical home and accountable care.”
TELUS CareShare will give clinicians choice, allowing them to subscribe and pay for only the service or information they require for improved clinical management and patient services. Provider organizations benefit from not having to rip and replace costly systems to achieve health information sharing goals thus saving time and resources.
A portal or EMR interface, and one system interface into the cloud will give clinicians access to CareShare solutions used to support better patient care including:
- Results Distribution: enables the sharing of patient results amongst multiple providers
- eReferral: offers an ecosystem for use by primary care and specialist physicians to facilitate the sharing of electronic referrals and patient information
- Care Coordination and Remote Patient Monitoring: supports coordinated patient home care process and enables patients to stay in touch with their healthcare providers
TELUS CareShare’s primary value is real-time access to information federated from many sources such as:
- Pharmacy/Lab Systems
- Patients (through TELUS health space)
- Health Information Systems
- Electronic Medical Record Systems
- Jurisdictional Electronic Health Records
Benefits to clinicians/care providers include:
- Allowing the user to pay for only that service/information they require
- Improved patient care delivery through timely access to data and shared workflow driven by the clinicians
- No rip and replace of systems – federation of data from existing systems into services
- Anytime, anywhere access through the Internet on multiple device types – PC, iPhone, tablets, etc.
- Time and resource savings
The combined TELUS and Carefx solution is available in two ways:
- Managed Services: applications and data are managed by TELUS for those health delivery organizations that require customized workflows.
- Licensed Services: for organizations requiring customized functionality, infrastructure and application control.
About Carefx
Carefx, a subsidiary of Harris Corporation, supports healthcare organizations in achieving their vision of advancing the quality and safety of patient care delivery through its Fusionfx suite of interoperable workflow and analytics solutions. Fusionfx streamlines and simplifies clinical and business workflow and connects care providers to the information they need - where, when, and how they need it. By managing care transitions and information gaps between diverse systems, departments and facilities, Fusionfx delivers crucial patient information with speed, efficiency and logic. Carefx supports more than 800 hospitals, health systems, and health information exchanges (HIEs) across North America, Europe and Asia. For more information on Carefx, visit www.carefx.com. Contact Carefx at (480) 833-5010 or by email as info@carefx.com.
About TELUS Health Solutions
TELUS Health Solutions is a leader in telehealth, electronic health records, remote patient monitoring, mobile home and community care, consumer health, benefits management and pharmacy management. Our solutions give health authorities, providers, primary care physicians, patients and consumers the power to enhance decision making and improve outcomes for Canadians. TELUS Health Solutions is transforming how information is used across the continuum of care from hospital to home with solutions that foster collaboration, drive prevention and empower care teams and patients. TELUS Health Solutions is Canada’s leading Healthcare IT Company as cited by the Branham Group for three years and for being honoured as the ITAC Health Company of the Year (2008) and Health Transformation Company of the Year (2009). For more information about TELUS Health Solutions, please visit www.telushealth.com and www.telushealthspace.com.
About TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $9.9 billion of annual revenue and 12.3 million customer connections including 7 million wireless subscribers, 3.7 million wireline network access lines and 1.2 million Internet subscribers and more than 350,000 TELUS TV customers. Led since 2000 by President and CEO, Darren Entwistle, TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, entertainment and video.
In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our team members and retirees will, by year-end 2011, have contributed $245 million to charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered 4.1 million hours of service to local communities since 2000. Ten TELUS Community Boards across Canada lead TELUS’ local philanthropic initiatives. TELUS was honoured to be named the most outstanding philanthropic corporation globally for 2010 by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, becoming the first Canadian company to receive this prestigious international recognition.
For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com. To learn more about TELUS’ commitment to the community, please visit TELUS.com/community.
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For more information, please contact:
Janice Murray
TELUS Health Solutions
(416) 487-5007
Janice.murray@telus.com
Carefx Contact:
Christopher Capot
KNB Communications
212-505-2441
ccapot@knbpr.com