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Thursday, April 16, 2015

How ER Wait Times Are Being Slashed with SMS Messaging

By ndenholm
 
Increasingly, hospitals are viewing emergency rooms as a dependable way to generate new business. It wasn’t always this way. With high running costs and significant numbers of uninsured patients, trauma centers and ERs used to be considered excellent ways of hemorrhaging cash. They were a necessary inconvenience of running a hospital, the cost offset by the reward of, you know, saving lives.
 
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Can SMS Boost Blood Donations?

By jpollack


What do secure text messaging and blood donations have in common? One is being used to boost the other. Everyone knows arranging for a blood donation in an emergency situation is a harrowing ordeal that involves contacting blood banks and finding quality donors. SMS is changing the way people receive donations thanks to services such as SMS for Blood and CallFire.

Thursday, August 21, 2014

How Text Alerts Are Improving Safety on Campus

By jpollack


School shootings, sexual assault...living on a college campus does not guarantee safety! Whether going to school far from home or attending a local college, it’s important to be alert at all times. College campus administrators have taken safety precautions a step further by using text-based mobile alert systems for emergency notifications as well as campus safety programs.