Any dental office knows that it is essential to remind patients about appointments a day or so beforehand. This practice has become very common with all sorts of medical offices because it helps ...

Ten years ago Smile Reminder saw an opportunity to offer text message appointment reminders to physician practices that were losing upwards of $200,000 a year because of missed appointments. Some of ...

Text message reminders for outpatient appointments are being rolled out across Bradford teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust following a successful pilot in children’s services. The move comes as ...

April 26, 2011 — Text messages may not be more effective than voice messages in reminding pediatric patients and their caregivers of appointments, researchers reported in a study published in the ...

YORK Hospital has launched a new text message service to remind people about their outpatient appointments. People are being urged to sign up for the service, which will mean they receive text message ...

The AIDS.gov site, which is a joint effort put together by a number of federal agencies and programs involved in AIDS prevention, research, testing and treatment, has published its fourth and final ...

The NHS does send texts to patients to remind them of appointments, among other things, contrary to a suggestion from the health secretary at the weekend. Speaking on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg ...

Nova Scotians can now get appointment reminders for most, but not all, of the health appointments they have. The reminders will come in text messages if health providers have a cellphone number on ...

Nova Scotia Health is temporarily halting a text notification system it launched Monday. That's because at least 2,100 texts sent to the phones of Nova Scotians to remind them of medical appointments ...