{"id":568808,"date":"2022-03-17T08:43:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T06:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=568808"},"modified":"2022-03-17T09:18:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T07:18:39","slug":"outsurance-clients-enjoy-immediate-medical-or-armed-response-service-at-no-extra-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/568808\/outsurance-clients-enjoy-immediate-medical-or-armed-response-service-at-no-extra-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"OUTsurance clients enjoy immediate medical or armed response service at no extra cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OUTsurance has bolstered its innovative mobile app feature, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsurance.co.za\/outsurance-digital\/panic-assistance\/?source=businesstech&amp;utm_source=businesstech&amp;utm_medium=contentmarketing&amp;utm_campaign=panic_assistance&amp;utm_term=sponsored_article&amp;utm_content=panic_assistance_pr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Panic Assistance<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>, with the addition of medical support. Now, with just a tap, users can request armed or medical response, wherever and whenever they may need it.<\/p>\n<p>The service comes at no additional cost to existing OUTsurance policyholders and is even available to non-clients at a nominal yearly fee.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsurance.co.za\/outsurance-digital\/panic-assistance\/?source=businesstech&amp;utm_source=businesstech&amp;utm_medium=contentmarketing&amp;utm_campaign=panic_assistance&amp;utm_term=sponsored_article&amp;utm_content=panic_assistance_pr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to find out more about Panic Assistance<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Danie Matthee, OUTsurance CEO, says, \u201cWe are constantly looking for opportunities to innovate, especially when it adds value to our clients\u2019 lives \u2013 or in this case, save them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Panic Assistance, app users get true peace of mind wherever they go in South Africa, knowing that they will get the help they need in a safety or medical emergency, as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Behind the feature is powerful technology developed by AURA \u2013 a South African company with a vision to make the world a safer place.<\/p>\n<p>Put simply, their platform (which fully integrates with the OUTsurance app) connects users to a network of registered armed response and medical response units in real-time.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of an emergency, the closest available unit is guided directly to the app user, via their smartphone\u2019s location services.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Myers, CEO and Co-Founder of AURA, adds, \u201cYou can think of AURA like \u2018Uber for emergencies\u2019 and we\u2019re extremely proud of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s also fantastic that we get to partner with forward-thinking companies such as OUTsurance, where clients are more important than absolutely everything else. The service has already saved lives and all we\u2019re interested in is saving even more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Panic Assistance is part of an ever-growing umbrella of digital features, falling under OUTsurance\u2019s overall <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsurance.co.za\/help-at-out\/?source=businesstech&amp;utm_source=businesstech&amp;utm_medium=contentmarketing&amp;utm_campaign=panic_assistance&amp;utm_term=sponsored_article&amp;utm_content=panic_assistance_pr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Help@OUT proposition<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> available on the OUTsurance app and\/or via the MyOUTsurance client portal on the OUTsurance website.<\/p>\n<p>Matthee continues, \u201cWhile Help@OUT originally began as roadside and home assistance, we\u2019re pleased to have grown it into a lot more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beyond our critical emergency services, clients have access to several convenience features to make every day a little easier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In short, we\u2019re all about #OUTovation &#8211; and there\u2019s a lot more of it to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsurance.co.za\/help-at-out\/?source=businesstech&amp;utm_source=businesstech&amp;utm_medium=contentmarketing&amp;utm_campaign=panic_assistance&amp;utm_term=sponsored_article&amp;utm_content=panic_assistance_pr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to find out more about Help@OUT<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To subscribe to Panic Assistance, simply download the OUTsurance app from The App Store, Google Play or the Huawei App Gallery and follow the steps to sign up.<\/p>\n<p>You can also add up to three friends or family members to your subscription. More information about Panic Assistance can be found here.<\/p>\n<p><em>OUTsurance is a licensed insurer and FSP. Ts, Cs and limits apply. Panic Assistance is available to subscribed OUTsurance policyholders at no additional cost. For those who are not OUTsurance clients, a yearly subscription fee of R199 applies.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">How does Panic Assistance work?<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U-4TkypxMmg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">AURA shows the technology behind Panic Assistance<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ah3FIDxA9gA\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OUTsurance has bolstered its innovative mobile app feature, Panic Assistance, with the addition of medical support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":568986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[9653],"class_list":["post-568808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-outsurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568808"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569000,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568808\/revisions\/569000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}