{"id":54775,"date":"2021-03-23T07:54:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T21:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=54775"},"modified":"2021-03-23T11:31:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T01:31:02","slug":"aia-australia-new-health-partnership-with-optus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2021\/03\/23\/aia-australia-new-health-partnership-with-optus\/","title":{"rendered":"AIA Australia &#8211; New Health Partnership with Optus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aia.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AIA Australia<\/a> will provide Optus customers with the opportunity and means to live healthier lives as part of the companies\u2019 new &#8216;Connected Health&#8217; partnership.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the insurer says customers will be able to digitally engage with AIA\u2019s health and well-being program, AIA Vitality, which allows members to access learnings and tools to make more health-conscious decisions, while being rewarded in return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAIA Australia and Optus are aligned in the belief that supporting customers to access health and fitness technology will result in better physical and mental well-being outcomes,\u201d the statement says, noting that 37 percent of AIA Vitality members have used a device to track their physical activity in the past year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46961\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46961\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/Damien-Mu-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46961\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2019\/11\/Damien-Mu-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damien Mu.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Australia moved into lockdown in March and April 2020, members using fitness technology to track their activity increased by 23 percent.<\/p>\n<p>CEO and Managing Director of AIA Australia and New Zealand <strong>Damien Mu<\/strong> says the opportunity to partner with Optus \u201c\u2026is really exciting as we can provide more Australians, through digital platforms, with the tools and techniques to take small steps to improve their health and well-being\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The AIA Australia and Optus &#8216;Connected Health&#8217; partnership will expand over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AIA Australia will provide Optus customers with the opportunity and means to live healthier lives as part of the companies\u2019 new &#8216;Connected Health&#8217; partnership. A statement from the insurer says customers will be able to digitally engage with AIA\u2019s health and well-being program, AIA Vitality, which allows members to access learnings and tools to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":54817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-company-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}