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 ...

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 ...

Physicians are every bit as mobile physically as smartphone-driven communications have become virtually. When your “office” on a given day might be a dozen patient rooms at a hospital or two clinics ...

Healthcare clinicians and the IT professionals who support them are hearing more and more about the untapped promise of secure text messaging tools. Most people, after all, already have a cellphone ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Pittsburgh-based health insurer Highmark Inc. is leveraging ...

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 ...

JACKSON, Miss.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American HealthTech (AHT), a wholly owned subsidiary of CPSI (NASDAQ: CPSI) and a leading provider of electronic health records (EHR) for the post-acute and senior ...

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 ...

Many people, and that includes patients, prefer to text because it’s quick, easy, and convenient. Texting is incredibly effective for medical practices for things like scheduling, ongoing care, and ...