What the Latest Data Tells Us about Engaging Patients through Text
Published December 3, 2020
Lea Chatham, Director of Content Marketing, SR Health by Solutionreach
Patients have been leaning more toward digital communications for some time. COVID has sped up that transition with a 14% drop in interest in phone calls since the pandemic began. Find out what the data says about engaging patients through text messaging and hear some examples of how health systems are using it to address social determinants of health (SDoH) and more traditional communications. You’ll walk away with a list of at least ten ways to use automated and real-time text messaging to engage patients across their journey.
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