{"id":17148,"date":"2019-10-10T08:41:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T12:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/medavie-launching-digital-health-platform-137007"},"modified":"2019-10-10T08:41:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T12:41:04","slug":"medavie-launching-digital-health-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/10\/10\/medavie-launching-digital-health-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Medavie launching digital health platform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/iphone.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Medavie launching digital health platform\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 10, 2019 <\/p>\n<p>Medavie Blue Cross is launching a digital health platform that helps&nbsp;plan members access resources to manage their health when and where they need it.<\/p>\n<p>Available through a mobile app and online through the&nbsp;insurer\u2019s plan member services site, Connected Care has accessible virtual opportunities&nbsp;that connect directly&nbsp;to Canadian doctors through a partnership with virtual care provider Maple.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/just-9-of-employers-offer-virtual-health-care-survey-122608\">Just 9% of employers offer virtual health care: survey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plan members will also be able to order personalized pharmacogenetic testing and engage a professional for internet-enabled cognitive behavioural therapy,&nbsp;noted&nbsp;a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInnovation is expected in our industry, but introducing unique member programs that improve the quality of our health-care service offerings remains a true differentiator,\u201d said Shane Reid, director of product, pharmacy and provider management at Medavie Blue Cross. \u201cConnected Care offers convenient access and preferred pricing to leading online health-care providers and services, so members can access the care they want, when they need it, from anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/the-role-of-convenience-personalization-in-a-changing-health-care-landscape-115392\">The role of convenience, personalization in a changing health-care landscape<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/medavie-launching-digital-health-platform-137007\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 10, 2019 Medavie Blue Cross is launching a digital health platform that helps&nbsp;plan members access resources to manage their health when and where they need it. Available through a mobile app and online&#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\/17148"}],"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=17148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}