Text Messaging for Hospitals and Medical Facilities

Using text messaging to improve health isn't new, and we've written about it time and again. But as those seeking to enhance health, wellness, and medicine turn to texting more and more to further their ends, an increasingly exciting and specific array of SMS applications emerges.

Studies are showing that setting up text message reminders for dosages improves rates of compliance to a medication routine, findings that have big implications.

Could text messaging help the fight against malaria? Recent studies and applications of SMS to efforts against malaria in afflicted regions of African countries suggest that it just might.

Sports are an enormously popular pastime; recreational sports constitute a huge proportion of participation in sports. And yet, likely due to the lack of attention placed on sports at the recreational level, injuries in community level sports garner little attention.

Getting a drug on the market is no easy feat; an enormous amount of research, development, and trials are only quantitative markers of the process a new medication must undergo before gaining the clear for distribution by healthcare professionals.

In an effort to make keeping on top of the daily responsibilities of diabetes easier, researchers have begun to explore how texting might be used to lighten this load and improve the health of diabetics.

With text messaging rising as a top mode of communication, the use of texting to advance health and educate people becomes an increasingly promising avenue for health care providers, and, with developments like these educational texts, the children they serve.

Regardless of what research stands to be done, the power of text messaging to improve health care compliance shines as clear as ever. SMS is a truly valuable tool for the practice of medicine and those who benefit from it.

Though Western panic about the 2014 Ebola outbreak has largely calmed down, the epidemic remains a deadly reality in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. One surprising, and surprisingly effective, agent of these efforts is, yes, texting.

Anyone who has been up close and personal with pregnancy, be it their own or a family member's, friend's, or partner's, knows that it's a lot to keep track of.

All in all, with text messaging at our disposal, we are poised to make great strides in the realm of medicine and addiction.

If you find yourself forgetting the sunscreen or the hat a little too often, a new study from Australia may have a solution for you-- and that solution takes the form of texting.

With about half of American adults trying to lose weight and an estimated 65 billion dollars being spent each year by Americans on weight loss-related products and services, there simply has to be a better way. And, studies suggest, there is.

One exciting use of SMS to develop in recent years promises to help those diagnosed with or at risk of prostate cancer.

The efficacy and cost reduction presented by texting as a vehicle for reminders, combined with the medium's other conveniences, makes it a powerful tool available to help professionals and forgetful folks alike.

Everyone forgets commitments from time to time, and doctor's appointments are far from an exception. But missing appointments with your health care provider can be both a drain on medical resources and a danger to your health..

Love it or hate it, sexual health education in the U.S. experiences a dearth of funding and valid information, and people are fighting back.

These applications of texting are certainly a boon to the sphere of health and medicine, which constantly grows more efficient and effective as we develop technology and find new uses for it. With so many new uses for SMS arising in the medical community, texting promises to provide many innovative and useful new programs to come.

Trying to keep that New Year's resolution to stay fit? You'll be pleased to learn that technology can help you far more than it may distract you, if you use it right. Whether you want to stick to a fitness regimen, eat healthier, manage your weight, sleep better, or improve your overall wellness, there is, as they say, an app for that.

Mobile technology is not new to health developments--cell phones have been put to task in an impressive range of technologies to improve public health. An important and relevant instance of this approach is the use of texting to address disease epidemics.