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New York Presbyterian, Columbia University and Harlem Health Send Targeted Health Reminders over Text

Adolescents and young adults are known to be unreliable when it comes to taking their medicine. They’re four times more likely than adults to forget to take their medication or to take it at the wrong time. That can be a problem with any kind of illness – but is particularly life-threatening when the young [...]

Children’s Hospital Oakland’s Mobile Health Campaign Sends Safety Tips in English and Spanish

Children’s Hospital Oakland has been providing exceptional medical care to children in the Northern California region for almost 100 years. Over the past century, they have evolved from a converted stable in an old mansion to one of the premiere medical institutions in the nation devoted exclusively to children. In order to stay on the [...]

New Study Shows How Mobile Reminders Can Help HIV+ Patients

A new study out of Howard Brown Health Center shows that daily text message reminders helps HIV+ patients adhere to their medications. The 24-week study took a group of HIV+ patients, aged 14-29, with documented poor adherence to their antiretroviral therapy (ART). Every day, the patients received a personalized SMS reminder to take their medications. [...]

Text hotline answers teens’ questions about sex, drugs, and gangs

Questions about your sexual health can be embarrassing. But with Alexandria, VA’s Teen Text Message Line, teens can ask them in a way that’s private and easy – via text message. By texting SEX to 30644, teens enter a conversation with a counselor who will answer their questions within 24 hours. Teens can ask about [...]

California Poison Control System Sends Daily Tips Over Text

Get timely tips about preventing poison sent straight to your phone. The California Poison Control System runs an innovative campaign, in English and Spanish, to keep families informed about poison threats to their homes and lives. The “Home and Family Safety” campaign launched in National Poison Prevention week in 2010. As the press release describes it, [...]

TxTina Lets Teens use SMS to get Advice about Sexual Health

Teens seeking the scientific facts behind difficult sexual health issues can get direct, personal responses through the channel most comfortable for them – SMS. The Iowa Department of Human Services’ TxT (Talking Sex Together) program is dedicated to providing teens the straight facts about their sexual health, and helping them make smarter choices about safe [...]

Jed Alpert featured in Mashable on SMS Vaccine Reminders

Today our CEO, Jed Alpert, was featured in a Mashable piece about the power of SMS vaccine reminders. The article highlights how effective SMS reminders can be in getting parents to vaccinate their children – potentially saving thousands of lives. “The great thing about mobile is when you send messages, they’re designed to have an [...]

Are you sure you want to eat that? Text to find out!

If you walk into a dining hall run by Bon Appétit Management Company, you can find out exactly what you’re eating – just by sending a text. BAMCO, which runs college dining halls across the country, is giving students the power to manage their nutrition with an easy text service powered by Mobile Commons. The [...]

NYC Department of Health Doubles Smokers’ Quit Rates Through SMS

When the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene piloted a smoking cessation text messaging campaign, they got remarkable results. Not only did the text campaign double quite rates in heavy smokers, it also greatly decreased the likelihood of smoking again for certain groups. Here’s how it worked. The NYC Department of Health [...]

National Alliance for Hispanic Health Uses Health Screenings For List Building

At free health screenings provided by the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, community members receive screening tests and information about diseases and health risks. Recently, the NAHH decided to take their screenings one step further – and use them to enroll people in their Buena Salud club, an outreach platform that provides health information via [...]

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