TELUS BUYS MEDICAL RECORDS FIRM WOLF

Telus Corp., Canada’s third-largest wireless company, has bought an electronic medical-records company as it strengthens its position in the country’s health-care sector. The Vancouver-based company has bought Wolf Medical Systems Corp., without disclosing the financial terms of the deal for the cloudbased electronic medical-records provider. Telus is pushing for doctors and patients to make greater use of gadgets such as smartphones and tablet computers to manage health records and enable remote monitoring. Wolf Medical founder Brendan Byrne will lead Telus’s Physician Solutions unit, Telus said. Telus chief executive Darren Entwistle has said Telus has invested $800-million over three years in health care-related technology. He said Canada lagged global peers in electronic recordkeeping, adding that he expected health-care spending to reach $250billion by 2020. Doctors using Wolf EMR see more than 26,000 patients a day and review166,000 lab results, Telus said.

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