Health Information Technology: Text Messaging Interventions for Medication Adherence Among Patients with Chronic Diseases

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Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: August 2017

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends text messaging interventions to help people with chronic diseases take their medicines correctly. In these interventions, people who have at least 1 chronic medical condition get text messages reminding or encouraging them to take their medicines as prescribed. Health care providers can personalize the messages for patients, and the interventions may involve 2-way communication.  

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Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2017). Health Information Technology: Text Messaging Interventions for Medication Adherence Among Patients with Chronic Diseases. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/health-information-technology-text-messaging-medication-adherence-chronic-disease