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RCT: Text message-based program boosts adherence to appointments, medication

By Jonah Comstock 08:47 am July 10, 2014

An interactive text-message based care management system was able to create a 40 percent improvement in appointment adherence and modest improvement in medication and care plan adherence, according to new data from New York City-based Sense Health's randomized control trial with Montefiore Medical Center. Sense Health uses pre-scripted but customizable text messaging to help overloaded Medicaid...

Startup bolsters Medicaid care managers with two-way text messaging

By Jonah Comstock 06:33 am March 20, 2014

StartUp Health company Sense Health, which makes text messaging software for Medicaid care managers, has completed a randomized controlled trial. The results are still forthcoming, but CEO Stan Berkow shared a few with MobiHealthNews. Care managers are social workers or registered nurses assigned by Medicaid or other healthcare stakeholders to work closely with the highest-cost patients. Sense...