The latest Medical Group Management Association Stat poll found the majority of healthcare organizations use text messaging to communicate appointments to patients. MGMA polled 1,569 respondents for ...

Ten years ago Smile Reminder saw an opportunity to offer text message appointment reminders to physician practices that were losing upwards of $200,000 a year because of missed appointments. Some of ...

Last minute cancelled appointments and “no shows” are very costly. Many businesses attempt to reduce these by having staff dedicated to calling, emailing, and mailing clients with reminder messages, ...

There's no doubt that the Obama administration is looking to embrace technology to better the healthcare system, mobile technologies included. The AIDS.gov site has continued their ongoing four part ...

BAY CITY, MI — A number of upgrades — from text reminders for appointments to classroom technology — might not be too far away for the Bay County Health Department. As a new academic partnership ...

NYC Health + Hospitals deployed its text message appointment reminder platform, which has helped reduce missed appointments by 6 percent over the past year, at three additional hospitals. The health ...

Do you run a business and constantly find that people are missing their appointments? Maybe you run a hair salon and you find that you are losing out on precious hourly wages and employee time because ...

New York (CNN) — Going to see the doctor soon? Prepare to be hounded with appointment reminders by phone. By text. By robocall. By email. And in your online “patient portal.” Doctors and dentist ...

U.S. public health officials looking to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates to herd-immunity levels should take note of one easy, low-cost strategy used for flu shots. A newly published mega-study ...

Nowadays, it’s common to receive an automated text message a few days before the appointment you scheduled weeks or months ago – and might have completely forgotten about. That text might say ...