Seeking Practices
Seeking a small number of medical practices interested in piloting SMS4Health in UK and other European countries. Contact on admin@sms4health.com for more details.
How Texting Can Improve Mental Health
A research was conducted to show how mental health conditions are improved via text messaging. Doctors from UC Berkeley and UCSF collaborated to use texting messaging as an intervention to their program which was later found beneficial to their study. Read More
Cell Phone App Targets Minority Adolescents With Asthma to Reduce Exacerbations, Emergency Room Visits
Researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL and The University of Illinois at Chicago are using the Internet and motivational multimedia coupled with positive reinforcement via a smartphone application to try to improve asthma outcomes among low-income, minority adolescents with asthma.
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Are Smartphones Disrupting Your Sleep?
Research suggests lowering light setting, holding phone several inches from face help in-bed use
Development of a Theoretically Driven mHealth Text Messaging Application for Sustaining Recent Weight Loss
Mobile phone short message service (SMS) text messaging, has the potential to serve as an intervention medium to promote sustainability of weight loss that can be easily and affordably used by clinicians and consumers. To aim of the study was to develop theoretically driven…
Parents prefer personalized, interactive text messages that are sent multiple times
In a paper entitled ‘Parental and provider preferences and concerns regarding text message reminder/recall for early childhood vaccinations’ published in the Journal of Preventive Medicine on line, it was found that Text message reminder/recall for early childhood vaccination was widely supported by parents.
A Text Message a Day Keeps the Asthma Attack Away
Simply sending children with asthma a text message each day asking about their symptoms and providing knowledge about their condition can lead to improved health outcomes.
An efficient patient reminder service for your practice
There is overwhelming evidence that the introduction of a patient recall service in practice improves the quality of care, improves patient outcomes and patient satisfaction. Introducing a patient recall service in your practice is easier than you think. Over the last few years we have…