The Health Policy Exchange

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

One popular mHealth initiative is the text4baby program, a public-private partnership launched in 2010 that sends free text messages to expectant and new mothers containing appointment reminders, safety alerts, and general prenatal and postpartum health advice. Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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Chronic Disease Family Medicine DO Hypertension 130

Concierge Choice Physicians

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

“My patients want to know they will always see me—the doctor they know and trust—when they make appointments,” says Dr. Greenough. She graduated from UCLA School of Medicine in 2010 and completed her residency at the University of Michigan in 2013.

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StorytellERdoc

JULY 10, 2014

I originally wrote this piece in December, 2010. To office appointments sent to the ER because "we are overbooked today." Upon further questioning, I learned that she had been diagnosed with a yeast infection from her family doctor one month ago but failed to get her prescription filled. To pain control issues. Unprotected.

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Myriad Genetics

MAY 20, 2025

Roberts was struggling with her mental health after a string of painful life events, including her mother’s passing and other family members’ chronic health issues. “My I am able to help my family members, taking them to appointments, go to my job—in fact, I was just promoted–without wanting to just run away!”

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CDOCS

APRIL 14, 2021

Michael Snider<br /> Sponsored by 3M</em></p> <p>& </p> <p><span style="font-size:14px;">As I was sitting down yesterday to begin a standard appointment for a single unit restoration, I was struck by how far we have come in such a short time.& & What a difference!&

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Chris 07:41 Yeah, it’s a really interesting thing, because the 2010 article was solving the problem of, hey, send us patients, we promise we won’t kill them. That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. So I don’t know how clinically meaningful that week difference was to families.

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