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cellphone texting by physician office

By Jeffery P. Drummond

Physician office texting: Here's an interesting story of a physician's office using cell phone text-messaging for patient notifications. Certainly do-able, and probably a cost-saver, but you must make sure you're cellphone numbers are good, you get buy-in from the patients (with easy opt-out), minimize the information flow over the text process (don't discuss test results, just notify of the

Full post as published by HIPAA Blog on March 23, 2009 (boomark / email).