Editing Text messaging (section)

=== Use in healthcare ===
[[File:Text messaging used to provide encouragement to quit smoking.png|thumb|right|Some health organizations manage text messaging services to help people avoid smoking.]]
Text messaging is a rapidly growing trend in Healthcare.{{when|date=December 2014}} A randomized controlled trial of text messaging intervention for diabetes in Bangladesh was one of the first robust trials to report improvement in diabetes management in a low-and-middle income country.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Islam|first1=Sheikh Mohammed Shariful|last2=Niessen|first2=Louis W.|last3=Ferrari|first3=Uta|last4=Ali|first4=Liaquat|last5=Seissler|first5=Jochen|last6=Lechner|first6=Andreas|date=1 August 2015|title=Effects of Mobile Phone SMS to Improve Glycemic Control Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes in Bangladesh: A Prospective, Parallel-Group, Randomized Controlled Trial|url=https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/38/8/e112|journal=Diabetes Care|volume=38|issue=8|pages=e112–e113|doi=10.2337/dc15-0505|issn=0149-5992|pmid=26207059|doi-access=free}}</ref> A recent systematic review and individual participants data meta analysis from 3,779 participants reported that mobile phone text messaging could improve blood pressure and body mass index.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Shariful Islam|first1=Sheikh Mohammed|last2=Farmer|first2=Andrew J|last3=Bobrow|first3=Kirsten|last4=Maddison|first4=Ralph|last5=Whittaker|first5=Robyn|last6=Pfaeffli Dale|first6=Leila Anne|last7=Lechner|first7=Andreas|last8=Lear|first8=Scott|last9=Eapen|first9=Zubin|last10=Niessen|first10=Louis Wilhelmus|last11=Santo|first11=Karla|date=October 2019|title=Mobile phone text-messaging interventions aimed to prevent cardiovascular diseases (Text2PreventCVD): systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis|journal=Open Heart|volume=6|issue=2|pages=e001017|doi=10.1136/openhrt-2019-001017|issn=2053-3624|pmc=6802999|pmid=31673381}}</ref> Another study in people with type 2 diabetes showed that participants were willing to pay a modest amount to receive a diabetes text messaging program in addition to standard care.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Shariful Islam|first1=Sheikh Mohammed|last2=Lechner|first2=Andreas|last3=Ferrari|first3=Uta|last4=Seissler|first4=Jochen|last5=Holle|first5=Rolf|last6=Niessen|first6=Louis W.|date=1 March 2016|title=Mobile phone use and willingness to pay for SMS for diabetes in Bangladesh|url=https://academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/38/1/163/2362665|journal=Journal of Public Health|volume=38|issue=1|pages=163–169|doi=10.1093/pubmed/fdv009|pmid=25687131|issn=1741-3842|doi-access=free|hdl=10536/DRO/DU:30109150|hdl-access=free}}</ref> "One survey found that 73% of physicians text other physicians about work- similar to the overall percentage of the population that texts."{{citation needed|date=December 2014}} A 2006 study of reminder messages sent to children and adolescents with [[type 1 diabetes mellitus]] showed favorable changes in adherence to treatment.<ref>{{Cite journal
 | pmid = 18550322
| pmc = 2527290
| year = 2008
| author1 = Patrick, K.
| title = Health and the mobile phone
| journal = American Journal of Preventive Medicine
| volume = 35
| issue = 2
| pages = 177–81
| last2 = Griswold
| first2 = W. G.
| last3 = Raab
| first3 = F
| last4 = Intille
| first4 = S. S.
| doi = 10.1016/j.amepre.2008.05.001
}}</ref> A risk is that these physicians could be violating the [[Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act]]. Where messages could be saved to a phone indefinitely, patient information could be subject to theft or loss, and could be seen by other unauthorized persons. The HIPAA privacy rule requires that any text message involving a medical decision must be available for the patient to access, meaning that any texts that are not documented in an EMR system could be a HIPAA violation.<ref>{{cite web|last=Terry|first=Ken|date=31 October 2012|url=http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/text-messaging-between-clinicians-increasing-in-hospitals/d/d-id/1107145?|title=Text Messaging Between Clinicians Increasing in Hospitals|website=[[InformationWeek]]|access-date=19 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.onpage.com/hipaa-compliant-messaging/|title=HIPAA compliant messaging for healthcare providers|website=OnPage|access-date=10 January 2018}}</ref>