Articles Tagged With: text
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Text Messaging App Might Improve Patient Response Rate
Using an automated text messaging system as a communication tool proved to be handy for patient follow-up, specifically for ambulatory surgery patients who received a nerve block.
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Tech-Driven Nursing Intervention Helps Prevent STIs, Improves Care
A technology-enhanced community health nursing intervention proved useful as a method for preventing gonorrhea and chlamydia infections. It also helped patients improve management of pelvic inflammatory disease.
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The Joint Commission Reverses Position, Ends Ban on Texting Orders, With Caveats
TJC has reversed its position and says that effective immediately, “licensed independent practitioners or other practitioners in accordance with professional standards of practice, law and regulation and policies and procedures may text orders as long as a secure text messaging platform is used and the required components of an order are included,” according to an article in the May 2016 Perspectives.
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