While the innovation of secure text messaging has been a welcome development in the world of clinical communications, mass adoption still remains..
As part of a five-part series on task and workflow interoperability for a health IT publication, one particular area of healthcare IT caught my eye:..
Hennepin County Medical Center needed a change. As Minnesota's premier Level-1 trauma center, processing more than 21,000 discharges annually, as well as..
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” - George Bernard Shaw
While many care providers and clinicians have come to accept communication inefficiencies as a relatively normal occupational hazard, the monetary cost to..
The 1980s were responsible for a number of contributions to the advancement of technology—Walkmans, VCRs, the Apple II computer, and pagers all laid the..
There has been a recent surge in adoption of secure text messaging solutions within healthcare. Pagers and non-secured SMS messaging solutions are being..
Just about every IT worker, clinician, and administrative staff member associated with a healthcare organization is aware of the HIPAA Omnibus rule that..
As more and more healthcare organizations transition to mobile device policies and cloud-based communication applications, healthcare CEOs, CIOs and..
Ben, our CEO, recently did a webinar with 1st Healthcare Compliance on the growing number of healthcare operations using their smartphone devices for..
Victoria, Canada, January 20, 2015 --Telmediq, a leader in healthcare communication applications, announced the appointment of John Livingston as an..
Text Messaging in the Healthcare Environment
Text messaging, often referred to as ‘Texting’ and ‘SMS’, provides doctors and supporting healthcare..