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 ...

Apple changed the messaging landscape in 2011, enabling full encryption for its new iMessage platform from the start. It seems extraordinary that it has taken a further 15-years to bring us to the ...

Mobile operator Sprint Nextel has teamed up with TigerText, a privately held, Santa Monica, Calif.-based provider of secure text messaging services, to offer two texting products for healthcare ...

BlackBerry Limited has made enough interesting moves in the healthcare realm lately that its acquisition of a secure communications provider is worth keeping an eye on. The company recently bought ...

Apple is preparing encrypted RCS support for iPhone, a change that could make messaging with Android users more secure and reduce reliance on SMS.

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 ...

The Peoples Advisors launched TIPS (Text In Private Space) Android App on Memorial Day 2011. Text messaging has taken over as the most popular form of communication in the world. Over ...