Jennifer Dennard, Healthcare IT News
“During my last visit to the dentist, my dental hygienist lamented to me that whenever she has young children in her chair, she can barely make eye contact with them or engage them in conversation because of their constant texting.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“The Journal of Medical Internet Research recently published a research paper called, SMS Applications for Disease Prevention in Developing Countries
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Kim MJ et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2012
Purpose
Specialty consultations and waiting for admission to a hospital bed are major contributors to increased length of stay and overcrowding in the emergency department. We implemented a computerized short messaging service to inform care providers of patient delay in order to reduce length of stay. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of this strategy on length of stay in the emergency department.
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Haug S et al, BMC Public Health, 12(1)
BACKGROUND:
Particularly in groups of adolescents with lower educational level the smoking prevalence is still high and constitutes a serious public health problem. There is limited evidence of effective smoking cessation interventions in this group. Individualised text messaging (SMS) based interventions are promising to support smoking cessation and could be provided to adolescents irrespective of their motivation to quit. The aim of the current paper is to outline the study protocol of a trial testing the efficacy of an SMS based intervention for smoking cessation in apprentices.
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Joseph Kim, MedicalSmartphones
“South Africa has one of the highest human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence rates in the world, but despite the well-established benefits of HIV counseling and testing (HCT), there is low uptake of HCT.
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Nancy Fliesler, Vector
“Your child has been in the hospital and it’s discharge day. It’s a chaotic scene: You’re trying to take care of him and maybe his little sister who keeps running down the hall, while completing hospital paperwork and packing your bags.
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Déglise C et al, J Med Internet Res, 14(1)
Background:
The last decade has witnessed unprecedented growth in the number of mobile phones in the developing world, thus linking millions of previously unconnected people. The ubiquity of mobile phones, which allow for short message service (SMS), provides new and innovative opportunities for disease prevention efforts.
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Zolfaghari M et al, Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2012
Aim.
To compare the effectiveness of two methods of follow-up: short message service and telephone follow-up on type 2 diabetes adherence for three months.
Background.
Using telemedicine approaches may preserve appropriate blood glucose levels and may improve adherence to diabetes control recommendations in diabetic patients.
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Luke Gale, CMIO
“A smoking cessation program called txt2stop, a text messaging service that sends participants motivational messages, delivered positive, short-term results for smoking cessation rates at six months, according to the txt2stop study from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and published online June 30 in The Lancet.
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texttochange
“The C4C program with Health Child targets pregnant women and the community in the Eastern region of Uganda, Jinja. There are still high rates of child mortality at 147 per 1000 live births. The program uses a community based approach to reduce maternal and infant mortality in Uganda, accelerating uptake of post partum care and promotion child health including early infant HIV diagnosis.
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KGO
“Using wireless technology to improve health outcomes was the focus for the annual mHealth summit, which took place last week at National Harbor in Washington, D.C.
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David E. Williams, The Health Care Blog
“It used to be broadly accepted that doctors didn’t like using information technology, but a more likely explanation is that they have an aversion to clunky systems that slow them down and load them up with administrative work that is more suited to administrative support staff. Doctors are big users of smartphones and tablets in their personal lives and have started to bring their own devices and apps into the workplace.
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Brian Eastwood, Health IT Pulse
“A short statement from The Joint Commission encourages hospitals to put the kibosh on physicians who send patient orders as text messages.
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Ben Parfitt, FrontlineSMS
“Africa has undergone a mobile revolution, and it is spreading. The health sector is capitalizing on the resulting plethora of new opportunities. Doctors, nurses, health workers and pharmacists often rely on their mobile phones, using them as a reference tool, accessing information otherwise unavailable to them.
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Trevor Lewis, HL7 Standards
“The promise of mHealth is quite attractive to many health program implementers, but few know how to actually implement it. That’s why, during the final day of the 2011 Social Franchising for Health Conference in Mombasa, Pam Riley of the SHOPS Project clearly laid out 7 steps for implementing a mass-SMS mHealth program
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Guy R et al, Health Services Research. 2011
Background and Objectives
In the last few years there has been a steady uptake of mobile phone short message service (SMS) reminders to increase medical attendance rates. We undertook a review of studies that assessed the effectiveness of SMS reminders at increasing the uptake of appointments in health care settings.
Methods
We reviewed studies which involved a comparison of appointment attendance rates between patients who did and did not receive SMS reminders published prior to June 2010. We used meta-analysis methods to calculate the overall effect on attendance rates, stratified by study design and clinic type.
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Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“Once doctors began adopting smartphones (now adoption has reached some 80 percent of MDs in the US), they quickly started using SMS as a way of communicating with other doctors and staff because of its speed and ease of use compared to older methods.
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Los Angeles Times
“A new medical identification bracelet that came on the market Tuesday uses text messaging to convey detailed medical information to first responders. The TextID bracelets from the medical jewelry company Hope Paige are engraved with an identification number that, when sent via text, can access an individual’s emergency information, including an extensive medical history, current medications and emergency contacts, among other things.
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews
“After years of using pagers, and constantly waiting on return calls, physicians now consider texting to be an efficient and fast way to connect with colleagues.
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florence, Frontline SMS
“When an innovator is struck with a new idea for a technology, his or her first thought isn’t necessarily “How can this be used for a humanitarian, development, or peace-building cause?” Rather, it is more often “How can I sell millions of copies of this in the Apple App Store?” or “How soon will I be able to sell this to a venture capitalist and use the money to buy my I Am Rich app“.
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