Texts improve treatment adherence – FierceBiotechIT

Posted by admin on 1/Dec/2009 in Application Watch | 0 comments

There is an interesting article by George Miller from FierceBiotechIT about how text messaging can improve patients treatment adherence.

Here is an excerpt from the article,

Daily text-message reminders have yielded a 2x improvement in adherence to a treatment regimen among subjects in a dermatology study. Those who received the texts had an average daily adherence rate of 56 percent for sunscreen application, while those who received no text messages had a 30 percent rate.

Link to the full article: Texts improve treatment adherence – FierceBiotechIT.

CellTrust have some applications that can help prevention & intervention health messaging that is HIPAA compliant, PHI secure text messaging, anytime, anyplace, for any mobile phone. It can turn patient mobile phone into a prevention and intervention devices.