TELUS Health, a global leader in health technology, and Clinia, a leading provider of health-grade search technologies have announced an exclusive strategic partnership to revolutionize health navigation and deliver personalized care throughout individuals’ health journeys. By harnessing Clinia’s AI-powered technology stack, TELUS Health aims to streamline provider registry networks management, facilitate seamless interconnectivity and drive improved cost sustainability for payors and providers, eliminating the problems associated with traditional provider registry networks.
With the combined TELUS Health and Clinia infrastructure, time and effort spent on administrative tasks and manual data entry is optimized through turnkey solutions for their provider registry, allowing more effective allocation of resources. This solution eliminates the problems associated with traditional provider registry networks, which are expensive to maintain yet don’t give connected and complete information. Now, payors can leverage a complete single solution to power their own trusted experiences, including referrals and resource management for care teams, and give members direct access to vetted care providers that are personalized to the benefits plan of an employer or individual.
TELUS Ventures, the strategic investment arm of TELUS Corporation and one of Canada’s most active and longest-standing corporate venture capital (CVC) funds, is leading a $10M Series A financing round for Clinia with participation from existing investors including AQC Capital, Anges Québec, Groupe Benoit, Kastello and Formentera Capital. This capital demonstrates the power of Canadian innovation and will accelerate growth connecting the company into TELUS’ ecosystem to foster further innovation benefiting customers globally.