December 7, 2007 at 4:46 pm · Authored by Ewan · Filed under SMS

The iPLATO team are powering through the government organisations in the United Kingdom. They’re one of the most progressive providers of mobile messaging services to the healthcare industry in particular. I really enjoy hearing from them about how they’re helping the primary care trusts across the UK. I firmly believe that text messaging is a brilliant way of connecting with patients who’re often on the move. Whether it’s asking patients to confirm appointments or sending screening reminder, or more.

Here’s the news from iPLATO:

Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust has partnered with mobile health promotion specialists iPLATO to help increase the number of women attending breast cancer screening clinics. Supported by the Public Health Team, twenty GP surgeries will use the iPLATO patient care messaging system to send patients timely reminders of their screening appointment.

“We will be using the text messaging system for breast screening appointment reminders in the coming weeks,” said, Virginia Patania, Practice Manager at the Jubilee Place Practice. “We are looking forward to the opportunity of providing an innovative service that aims to increase the effectiveness of the breast screening programme.

Excellent, excellent.