{"id":19802,"date":"2020-10-08T15:15:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T19:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/morneau-shepell-expanding-into-telemedicine-services-150857"},"modified":"2020-10-08T15:15:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T19:15:48","slug":"morneau-shepell-expanding-into-telemedicine-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/10\/08\/morneau-shepell-expanding-into-telemedicine-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Morneau Shepell expanding into telemedicine services"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/2016\/08\/Digital-health-.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Morneau Shepell expanding into telemedicine services\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff <\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 8, 2020 <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Morneau Shepell Ltd. is expanding<\/span>&nbsp;into the growing telemedicine market to provide Canadian benefits plan members and their families with more convenient access to digital health-care services.<\/p>\n<p>Through its LifeWorks\u2019 business,&nbsp;the company is launching a unified telemedicine service&nbsp;that will provide Canadians with quick access to medical practitioners such as doctors, nurse practitioners and other clinical professionals across the well-being spectrum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/head-to-head-is-telemedicine-the-right-approach-to-employee-health-care-143704\">Head to head: Is telemedicine the right route to employee health care?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTelemedicine will shape the future of health care through consumer-grade platforms that unify and simplify the end-to-end patient experience, marrying digital scale with human personalization,\u201d said&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Neil King<\/span>, president of LifeWorks and executive vice-president of&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Morneau Shepell, in a press release.&nbsp;<\/span>\u201cToday, millions of employees and their families turn first to&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Morneau Shepell<\/span>&nbsp;for support on a wide range of well-being issues. We have a unique opportunity to support their needs with a new generation of unified telemedicine solutions. It\u2019s a natural fit in our total well-being portfolio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accessed via the LifeWorks\u2019 platform,&nbsp;the new service aims to provide faster access to care for patients, a simplified experience, access to multiple consultation approaches and integration into a continuum of care spanning multiple health-care modalities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/morneau-shepell-expanding-into-telemedicine-services-150857\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff &nbsp;|&nbsp;October 8, 2020 Morneau Shepell Ltd. is expanding&nbsp;into the growing telemedicine market to provide Canadian benefits plan members and their families with more convenient access to digital health-care services. Through its LifeWorks\u2019 business,&nbsp;the&#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\/19802"}],"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=19802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}