HIPAA-compliant texting platforms have been available to healthcare providers for nearly a decade, yet 96 percent of physicians admitted, in a recent..
Why Most HIPAA Compliant Texting Apps Fail
Hennepin County Medical Center Leverages Telmediq Solutions to Deliver Efficient, Patient-Centered Care
With a 472-bed hospital and over 50 primary care clinics distributed throughout the Minneapolis, Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) depends on their..
Why Healthcare Needs Real-Time, Asynchronous Communication
Another day, another study confirming what SOME of us have known all along—by utilizing mobile communication applications (such as secure texting) in lieu..
Healthcare IT System Design: Lessons For The Future
What would healthcare information management and health IT workflow look like today if we focused on automated workflows first, and data second?..
Opposites Attract: Why Clinical Communication Systems Should Marry Smartphone and Pager Features
A number of thought-provoking articles lately have observed the (relatively) sluggish adoption rates that secure messaging solutions face in healthcare,..
Structured Messaging: Secure, Customizable Medical Team Workflow
Structured messaging protocols have come a long way since I first encountered them as a graduate student in a human-computer interaction course. Back then..
While the innovation of secure text messaging has been a welcome development in the world of clinical communications, mass adoption still remains..
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 1980s were responsible for a number of contributions to the advancement of technology—Walkmans, VCRs, the Apple II computer, and pagers all laid the..
3 Reasons Why your Secure Text Messaging App Needs to Talk to your EMR
There has been a recent surge in adoption of secure text messaging solutions within healthcare. Pagers and non-secured SMS messaging solutions are being..