{"id":16682,"date":"2019-09-09T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/sun-life-partnering-with-eq-care-to-launch-virtual-medical-evaluation-service-135409"},"modified":"2019-09-09T16:00:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T20:00:37","slug":"sun-life-partnering-with-eq-care-to-launch-virtual-medical-evaluation-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/09\/09\/sun-life-partnering-with-eq-care-to-launch-virtual-medical-evaluation-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Life partnering with EQ Care to launch virtual medical evaluation service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/44701995_virtualcare123RF-e1544021694867.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Copyright:everythingpossible\" title=\"Sun Life partnering with EQ Care to launch virtual medical evaluation service\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;September 9, 2019 <\/p>\n<p>Sun Life&nbsp;is&nbsp;launching Equinoxe LifeCare\u2019s virtual medical evaluation services to&nbsp;help plan sponsors with disability management.<\/p>\n<p>The service allows&nbsp;plan members and their dependants to connect with virtual health-care services and licensed health-care practitioners.&nbsp;It also enables&nbsp;them to consult with medical professionals through secure video or chat via smartphone, tablet or computer.&nbsp;In addition,&nbsp;the service allows plan members to requisition prescriptions and&nbsp;diagnostic tests, lab results or specialist referrals remotely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/2019-group-benefits-providers-report-how-digital-health-is-affecting-the-benefits-industry-128129\">2019 Group Benefits Providers Report: How digital health is affecting the benefits industry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnology and advancements in artificial intelligence are enabling new opportunities,\u201d said Daniel Martz, chief executive officer of EQ Care, in a press release. \u201cWe want to continuously leverage them to optimize the patient\u2019s health-care journey and, with augmented decision support, to achieve the best level of quality care for Sun Life\u2019s clients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/sun-life-partnering-with-eq-care-to-launch-virtual-medical-evaluation-service-135409\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;September 9, 2019 Sun Life&nbsp;is&nbsp;launching Equinoxe LifeCare\u2019s virtual medical evaluation services to&nbsp;help plan sponsors with disability management. The service allows&nbsp;plan members and their dependants to connect with virtual health-care services and licensed health-care practitioners.&nbsp;It&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}