The Joint Commission recently announced a lift to its ban on secure texting among clinicians. This is big news for healthcare as the earlier ban prohibited texting between providers due to security ...

Physicians are every bit as mobile physically as smartphone-driven communications have become virtually. When your “office” on a given day might be a dozen patient rooms at a hospital or two clinics ...

Every day, senior care providers and facility operators grapple with communication gaps that can impede the flow of health information and interrupt or delay care delivery, especially during resident ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has clarified that while it's permissible for healthcare entities to use secure texting platforms for communicating certain patient information, the use of ...