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How Addressing Digital Literacy Assists Healthcare Providers in Using Text Messaging to Reach Senior and Minority Populations

How Addressing Digital Literacy Assists Healthcare Providers in Using Text Messaging to Reach Senior and Minority Populations

More than six billion texts are sent every day in the United States. That amounts to about 180 million every month and 2.27 trillion each year.  The number probably doesn’t seem so surprising, given that most Americans own a cell phone, including the 85 percent or so...
Helping Patients Make Healthy Decisions:  Overcoming 5 Behavioral Economics Problems Through Automated Technology

Helping Patients Make Healthy Decisions: Overcoming 5 Behavioral Economics Problems Through Automated Technology

There used to be a longstanding belief – especially in the healthcare industry – that individuals made rational decisions based on logic and evidence. However, in recent years, we have begun to understand that they are strongly influenced by their own...