Telus Canada Pilot PHR Goes Online with Their Own Employees Using Microsoft HealthVault To Start

The licensing of HealthVault with Telus was announced a couple months ago, so moving right along the pilot is working with Telus employees to begin with and later others outside of the company will have the same opportunity. BD

TELUS in Canada licenses Microsoft HealthVault Personal Health Records

“TELUS Health Space will make the service available to organizations such as governments, health regions, hospitals, insurers and employers, who would like to offer the service to their constituents. TELUS will operate Health Space’s infrastructure and securely host all stored health data in Canada to help to ensure consumer privacy.”

Telus announced an electronic health service yesterday that will give patients instant online access to all their medical files.

Inspired by social-networking features, the new platform will let patients and their health-care providers input and share information in a high security, high bandwidth online database.

It's a move Telus chief executive Darren Entwistle said will "revolutionize" health care.

Telus's new health space, which is being piloted with 750 Telus employees and will initially be available for health organizations and companies, is the first international deployment of Microsoft's HealthVault platform. It's launching with 12 partners and sponsors, including the Heart and Stroke Foundation, MedicAlert, Sunnybrook Health Service, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Asthma Society of Canada, the Canadian Diabetes Association, the Canadian Mental Health Association, Shepell. fgi and others in the health field.

Telus's new health space, which is being piloted with 750 Telus employees and will initially be available for health organizations and companies, is the first international deployment of Microsoft's HealthVault platform. It's launching with 12 partners and sponsors, including the Heart and Stroke Foundation, MedicAlert, Sunnybrook Health Service, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Asthma Society of Canada, the Canadian Diabetes Association, the Canadian Mental Health Association, Shepell. fgi and others in the health field.