Mobile operator Sprint Nextel has teamed up with TigerText, a privately held, Santa Monica, Calif.-based provider of secure text messaging services, to offer two texting products for healthcare ...

ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Only 10 percent of patients prefer to receive physician communications via patient portals, whereas twice that many (19.6 percent) favor receiving ...

South Carolina's Beaufort Memorial Hospital expects to save millions of dollars this year and potentially prevent some deaths as well by investing in secure texting technology, attendees of the ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has clarified that while it's permissible for healthcare entities to use secure texting platforms for communicating certain patient information, the use of ...

Everyone texts. According to a September 2013 Pew Research report, 81 percent of cell phone owners, or about 74 percent of all Americans, regularly send and receive text messages. What is an easy and ...

Bed turnover is important, both to the hospital and the patient. Consumers need to be treated by clinicians at the appropriate level of care as soon as possible, and hospitals depend on operational ...

During a June webinar hosted by Becker’s Hospital Review and sponsored by DrFirst, orthopedic surgeon David Koronkiewicz, DO, explored issues associated with secure text messaging and shared results ...

Texting patient info has been against Medicare's Conditions of Participations for more than half a decade due to concerns of insecure texting platforms. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...

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