Beyond the messaging app, it’s important to practice safe security hygiene, like using two-factor authentication and a password manager But Signal isn’t the only messaging app that uses end-to-end ...

Everyone texts. According to a September 2013 Pew Research report, 81 percent of cell phone owners, or about 74 percent of all Americans, regularly send and receive text messages. What is an easy and ...

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 ...

Following some confusion, a Survey & Certification Letter sent last week has reaffirmed CMS’s stance on texting patient information, specifying that messages sent among clinicians are permissible so ...

Hospitalists who feel like they are drowning in the volume of messages sent and received over electronic secure messaging systems apparently are not exaggerating. While the systems are viewed as a ...