“In the October issue of the medical journal Pediatrics, researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York published the results of a study showing that text messaging could significantly improve the rate of adherence among 41 young liver transplant patients. The text messages reminded the teens to take their medications and over the course of a year, the teens were more likely to take their medications than they had been before they started receiving the messages. Also the number of episodes of liver rejection dramatically decreased. The results suggest one way technology may help address some of the most challenging health and healthcare problems. But are these types of solutions just for Gen X and Gen Y? The answer may be a resounding No!”
Article
Chris Gibbons, Healthcare Disparities Solutions Blog, 14 December 2009
Abstract (Miloh 2009)
