{"id":19160,"date":"2020-07-30T08:45:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T12:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/sun-life-caisse-investing-in-canadian-telemedicine-provider-148441"},"modified":"2020-07-30T08:45:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T12:45:24","slug":"sun-life-caisse-investing-in-canadian-telemedicine-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/07\/30\/sun-life-caisse-investing-in-canadian-telemedicine-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Life, Caisse investing in Canadian telemedicine provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/120042559_s-2-350x247.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"120042559 \/\/ 123RF\" title=\"Sun Life, Caisse investing in Canadian telemedicine provider\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;July 30, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>Sun Life Financial is making an equity investment of $32.7 million in Canadian telemedicine provider Dialogue, with the two entities forming a strategic commercial partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Through the deal, Sun Life will hold a minority ownership position in Dialogue. The round of financing also includes further investments from existing backers, including the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/caisse-investing-in-canadian-digital-health-care-platform-131794\">Caisse de d\u00e9p\u00f4t et placement du Qu\u00e9bec<\/a>, Portag3 Ventures, White Star Capital, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures Adviser GMBH, First Ascent Ventures and Walter Ventures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/caisse-investing-in-canadian-digital-health-care-platform-131794\">Caisse investing in Canadian digital health-care platform<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe need for Canadians to have alternative ways to access health care continues to grow,\u201d said Dave Jones, senior vice-president of group benefits at Sun Life Canada, in a press release. \u201cVirtual care is an important part of the future of Canadian health care. The combination of innovative technology and the necessity of social distancing during the pandemic has rapidly changed the virtual health-care landscape. Our investment in Dialogue represents Sun Life\u2019s commitment to helping Canadians live healthier lives through access to health care, whenever and wherever they need it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/sun-life-caisse-investing-in-canadian-telemedicine-provider-148441\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;July 30, 2020 Sun Life Financial is making an equity investment of $32.7 million in Canadian telemedicine provider Dialogue, with the two entities forming a strategic commercial partnership. Through the deal, Sun Life will&#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\/19160"}],"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=19160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}