Healthcare clinicians and the IT professionals who support them are hearing more and more about the untapped promise of secure text messaging tools. Most people, after all, already have a cellphone ...

The security of messaging apps is top of mind after a Signal chat involving White House staffers was discovered to have accidentally included a journalist. In the unofficial group chat, participants ...

The Signal encrypted messaging application is seen on a mobile device in this illustration photo taken in Warsaw, Poland on 26 March, 2025. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto) I don’t know very much ...

This is your signal to invest in secure messaging. After The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was mistakenly added to a Signal group chat involving top White House officials, it begs 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 ...

You probably use text message, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or even Instagram to chat with others. And while those messaging apps work fine, some still seek out alternatives that lean hard into a ...

The changes in Apple’s iOS 26.5 include end-to-end encryption for messages sent between iPhones and Android devices. Apple released another software update this week—and if you’re concerned about ...

QuadMed, a national leader in employer-sponsored healthcare, today announced enhanced text-first messaging capabilities that make it easier for patients to access care before, after, and between ...

Ask any teenager why they prefer text messaging, or SMS, over email and the answer they’ll give is likely to reflect the needs of the healthcare industry and hospital/physician communication, too.

With news this week of the messaging app being used to discuss war plans, we get you up to speed on what Signal should be used for—and what it shouldn’t. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our ...

Communication issues in a providers’ care transition points can ramp up healthcare costs, according to a survey evaluating hospital IT security released this month. Trying to locate a physician to ...