Life insurer AIA Singapore and telehealth firm WhiteCoat have partnered to supply digital company psychological well being options.
The companions are increasing their Assume Nicely programme to offer textual content, video, and in-person psychological well being teaching and assist to AIA’s company worker purchasers. Embedded in AIA’s company outpatient plans, the programme can even supply “a dynamic and personalised” content material library of curated psychological wellness sources equivalent to articles and movies.
HOW IT WORKS
By way of the WhiteCoat cellular app, customers will first have to finish a psychological well being self-assessment and make a same-day appointment to talk in real-time with a psychologist or counsellor, who can even suggest them follow-up care on a case-by-case foundation.
WHY IT MATTERS
Extra Singaporeans have reported poor psychological well being final 12 months, particularly younger adults aged 18-29, based on the latest Nationwide Inhabitants Well being Survey by the Ministry of Well being. One other survey by psychological well being firm Mind not too long ago discovered that Singaporean workers bought worse mental health in comparison with workers within the Philippines and Indonesia.
AIA and WhiteCoat’s Assume Nicely programme goals to convey such points to mild and unfold consciousness whereas selling a “supportive company surroundings” for psychological well-being by increasing entry to psychological well being assist and insurance coverage.
THE LARGER TREND
The Assume Nicely initiative, which started in 2019, began by providing main care telehealth service with direct insurance coverage claims processing. It will definitely expanded to offer omnichannel entry to specialist care, home-based care, and now, psychological healthcare, by way of textual content, video, and in-person consultations.
In addition to WhiteCoat, Mind, a fellow Singaporean firm, has sought partnerships with insurance coverage corporations to increase entry to company psychological wellness assist. Final 12 months, it landed main partnerships with the Swiss Life Network and MSIG Hong Kong to increase worker psychological well being options to their respective purchasers.
ON THE RECORD
“Employers have began acknowledging the significance of offering psychological well being assist to create a sustainable and wholesome office. By growing the primary insurer-backed, synchronous text-based psychological wellness service by our platform, we need to positively impression office psychological well being by enhanced accessibility, comfort and privateness,” mentioned WhiteCoat CEO and founder Bryan Koh.
