SMS health

By  Brian Dolan 07:05 am October 16, 2014
In just a few short hours -- today at 2PM ET (11AM PT) we'll be kicking off the next complimentary MobiHealthNews webinar, Insights into the Success of Text Messaging for Health. During the presentations we'll cover data about the growing amount of efficacy studies focused on mobile health initiatives that make use of text messages. We'll also review a series of individual case studies that point...
By  Brian Dolan 07:57 am October 6, 2014
The opportunity for healthcare organizations to leverage text messaging as a channel for health education, behavior change, and patient engagement has been widely discussed over the past decade. But unlike other health technology solutions, the body of data supporting text messaging-based mobile health programs is substantial and growing. Next Thursday during a complimentary MobiHealthNews...
By  Neil Versel 01:25 pm November 7, 2012
Text messaging for disease management once again is proving popular among patients with chronic conditions and their doctors, though the clinical gains are not always easy to determine. In a just-concluded test at Denver Health, about 80 percent of mostly older, low-income people expressed interest in participating in a text-based communication plan beforehand. After the trial, all 135...