Photo Credit: James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Acknowledging the power of text messaging to spread information fast, the Department of Health and Human Services has produced a toolkit of prepared messages for state and local authorities to disseminate during a disaster response.
A collaborative effort of five HHS divisions, the messages are meant to complement television...
From the mobile health company that developed Text4Baby, arguably the best known mobile health service (and certainly the one with the most partners), comes Text2Quit, a smoking cessation program. Voxiva says the service makes use of text messages, emails and the web along with evidence-based best practices from the Surgeon General and peer-reviewed studies.
The service is personalized around the...
