{"id":8574,"date":"2020-01-20T05:55:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T11:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=8574"},"modified":"2019-12-31T19:27:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T01:27:54","slug":"telehealth-is-here-to-stay-so-why-wont-employees-sign-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/telehealth-is-here-to-stay-so-why-wont-employees-sign-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Telehealth is here to stay, so why won\u2019t employees sign up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telehealth is an amazingly convenient tool for employees but without education, they don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re missing.\u00a0 \u00a0Education and awareness are key in letting employees know exactly how they (and their family members) can benefit from this valuable offering.\u00a0 \u00a0 Did you know that the Chambers Group Plan offers Teladoc services to every employee who hold extended health benefits?\u00a0 \u00a0It can be there for your employees when they need it most.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitnews.com\/news\/why-employees-wont-sign-up-for-telemedicine\">Telehealth is here to stay, so why won&#8217;t employees sign up?<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Employers have welcomed telehealth benefits with open arms, but they&#8217;re having a hard time getting employees to share their enthusiasm. Almost 75% of major employers offered some type of telehealth benefit in 2018, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation Employee Health Benefit Survey , up from just 27% in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telehealth is an amazingly convenient tool for employees but without education, they don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re missing.\u00a0 \u00a0Education and awareness are key in letting employees know exactly how they (and their family members) can benefit from this valuable offering.\u00a0 \u00a0 Did you know that the Chambers Group Plan offers Teladoc services to every employee who hold extended health benefits?\u00a0 \u00a0It can be there for your employees when they need it most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/sourcemedia.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/6691ee3\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5760x3840+0+0\/resize\/840x560!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsourcemedia.brightspotcdn.com%2Ff3%2F2b%2F577aa0ea494093351ab68358a178%2Ftelehealth.Getty.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Telehealth is here to stay, so why won\u2019t employees sign up?","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[129],"class_list":{"0":"post-8574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-wellness","9":"tag-benefits"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8578,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions\/8578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}