Save Your Life Using SMS
Posted By: Zodingliani Chinzah | Mar 28 2006
After many so called discoveries about the detrimental effects of Mobile Phones, Vodafone have studied England's SMS self-care programme benefits to patients and discovered that it increases productivity, improve patient health immensely and enable greater access to healthcare.
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Though it is still under-used benefits were enormous. It saves for NHS England £240-370 million a year through SMS appointment reminders to patients. Improves glucose level by 10% among the youth making possible reduction of diabetes related blindness by 76% and kidney disease by 50%. And a potential cost saving of £1.9 million per 1000 Tuberculosis patients.
Wonderful news.
