It is now hoped that as more hospitals make this their template style of text message, no-shows will be cut by 60,000, which would save hospitals around €12m a year. The rate of no-shows at ...

The text reminders will come 14 days ahead of an appointment, then a week before, then the day before. Messages through the YourHealthNS app will come a week before, the day before and the day of ...

A patient received a text Tuesday to remind him of his medical appointment, but the message indicated a time four hours later than the scheduled 2:45 p.m. appointment. (Submitted) Social Sharing ...

DEAR ABBY: It seems that doctors’ offices have it set up to automatically send you emails and/or text messages to confirm your appointments. It is convenient, but they send them repeatedly ...

Clinics will now send text messages to phones and reminders to those who use the YourHealthNS app. Nova Scotia Health is hoping to reduce the number of people who miss appointments simply because ...