You may not realize it, but your healthcare organization already has the data it needs to increase patient retention and improve business process efficiency through a practice-patient text messaging ...

New capabilities provide patients with 24/7 access to front office AI agents to improve patient engagement, simplify scheduling, and ease administrative burden for practices athenahealth today ...

The Feb. 8 memorandum summary states: “Texting patient information and the texting of patient orders among members of the health care team is permissible, if accomplished through a HIPAA compliant ...

Providers working in hospitals and critical access hospitals may now text patient information and patient orders among care team members without landing on the wrong side of Medicare’s Conditions of ...

Following some confusion, a Survey & Certification Letter sent last week has reaffirmed CMS’s stance on texting patient information, specifying that messages sent among clinicians are permissible so ...

Riverside Medical Clinic is the largest physician-owned practice in California. It is a multi-specialty enterprise that has more than 170 providers and sees more than 400,000 patient visits a year. As ...

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Yapi Leap adds MMS messaging, letting dental patients text images like insurance cards and IDs, streamlining check-ins and improving office efficiency. BURBANK, CA ...

A simple, low-cost, automated text-messaging program can nearly triple the odds of quitting smoking for patients with tuberculosis (TB), according to findings from a trial published in JAMA. The ...