Thank you for this opportunity.
From TELUS's perspective, technology is going to be key to the transformation of health outcomes. We believe that to be successful we have to involve all of the players in the system—doctors, health practitioners, and patients.
As a company, we feel we have a corporate responsibility to step up and help health care professionals. A lot of our focus is on the tools and capabilities we can bring to market. We constantly ask ourselves whether to move the focus from illness to wellness.
From a Canadian perspective, health care is a service. It's a service-based industry and should be leveraging technology the same way as other major industries—banking, airlines, insurance—to get the benefits of IT to the patients. We focus on finding solutions that will help organize information, connecting the various health care professionals, moving information securely, and making information more meaningful.
In connecting professionals, one of the challenges we have in health care is that it's a very siloed industry. We need to connect all of the various providers along the continuum of care. As to moving information securely, this is where a large carrier has a role to play, because we move lots of information today over our broadband infrastructures and our wireless networks. Organizing information is also key. Applications have to be set up in such a way that health care providers can easily use the information provided to them. Finally, making information more meaningful has to do with taking the information we have and presenting it back to health care providers or patients so they can take action on it.
We have solutions that address the continuum of care, that go across that continuum. TELUS is active in most of these areas, whether it's providing electronic health records, clinical information systems in hospitals, or electronic medical records. For example, we have about 34,000 clinicians involved in our solutions. In our first line of care, we have about 3,500 physicians using our EMRs.
Then we move towards the other end of the gamut, which is home care and self-care. At the end of the presentation I want to show you a video where you'll see live Canadians actually using some of our solutions. One of the areas of focus is remote patient monitoring. It sits between the first line of care and self-care—