Telus Health Companion now on Apple Watch in English and French

MONTREAL – Telus Health announced today its health companion for Apple Watch is now available to English and French speaking Canadians. Telus Health Companion on Apple Watch is an emergency monitoring service provided through the company’s LivingWell Companion national response service. It “leverages fall detection and location sharing capabilities of Apple Watch, which detects that the user has taken a hard fall,” a press release says. Telus Health’s national Central Monitoring Station receives that information and trained operators “immediately contact the customer to confirm the emergency, then alert designated emergency contacts and dispatch emergency support if needed,” the release says....