This appeared last week:More clinicians are texting, but far fewer hospitals offer a secure messaging app by Evan Sweeney Jul 21, 2017 1:24pm Although most clinicians still use pagers, text messaging is gaining traction despite security concerns. As more clinicians gravitate toward text messaging to communicate patient information, hospitals aren’t keeping pace with appropriate security protocols.Pagers continue to be the most popular form of communication among hospital-based clinicians, but more than half are using standard text messaging for patient care-related communication, according to a survey published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.However, just 27% of respondents said their organization had implemented a secure messaging application that some clinicians were using. Just 7% said most clinicians were using a hospital-issued messaging app.Physicians have previously underscored the “unprecedented convenience” of text messaging while acknowledging the myriad...
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