CTS 2013: Natale challenges Canadian health care system

TORONTO – With an aging population that will help Canada spend $250 billion annually on health care by 2020, it’s absolutely imperative that our health care providers dramatically accelerate their adoption of broadband technology and all that can mean, Telus chief commercial officer Joe Natale told Canadian Telecom Summit delegates on Tuesday. The message was overshadowed completely by the federal government’s announcement on wireless spectrum which, in part, denied the application made by Telus to acquire Mobilicity, but Natale’s main theme is one our country absolutely needs to hear. “Today, healthcare spending consumes 42 cents of every dollar spent by...