Telus and UofO collaborate on smartphone app to improve emergency cardiac care efficiency

Telus announced Monday a collaboration with the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and Badal — a cloud and data analytics services company acquired by Telus in 2023 — to deploy advancements to the Sayhut app, a secure, privacy-compliant point-of-care smartphone app that helps to reduce diagnostic time for patients who may be experiencing a heart attack due to a blocked artery. The app improves the speed and accuracy of communication between first responders, emergency doctors and interventional cardiologists at regional cardiac centres by enabling instant transfer of patient data via the app, allowing medical personnel to securely send electrocardiogram (ECG) images to...