The medical team at Asheville, North Carolina-based Mission Health system reported a significant increase in the ability to locate staff across fields after a hospital messaging system was implemented ...

Healthcare messaging company Klara, which bills itself as a “professional WhatsApp” for medicine, has raised $3 million in funding in a round led by Lerer Hippeau and Project A Ventures. Existing ...

Encouraging people to get vaccinated is often seen as a public health success story. However, understanding how persuading ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - In December, 7News reported the Louisiana Department of Health was pulling back on its messaging regarding COVID-19 and flu vaccines. Today, the Advocate reported the state ...

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 ...

Ivkovic Smith is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an integrative psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital. I’m a psychiatrist, a mother, and an increasingly ...

The messages sent and received in hospitals every day are unlike communications anywhere else. Most are related to patient care and safety. They contain instructions, questions and test results that ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has long advocated vaccination as a key component of public health. Before Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was confirmed as secretary of the nation’s top public ...

Just 25 percent of healthcare institutions with an official mobile messaging platform use internal, company-authorized tools, a new report shows. The rest make use of consumer apps that don't offer ...

HIPAA-compliant options are helping healthcare systems relay important information using familiar platforms and devices. Websites, patient portals, and lower-tech communications such as interactive ...