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 ...

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 ...

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

Texting between doctors and patients has become more commonplace in recent years. But before the two parties start sharing every intimate detail, experts urge providers to take a step back 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 ...

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 ...