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Doctors Want Ban Lifted on Mobiles in
Hospitals - 2 July 2004
Doctors have called for mobile phone bans in
hospitals to be lifted, reports
This is London via
Techdirt and the
BBC.
"Nearly all hospitals ban the phones on the
grounds that the radiowaves they emit affect
equipment such as heart monitors and
ventilators.
But new research shows there is no danger.
Today the British Medical Association conference
will vote on a motion stating hospitals would
benefit from replacing the current bleeper
system with mobiles.
In some countries mobiles are often used in
hospitals, even in intensive care. Mr Minkoff
said communication in hospitals was slow, with
bleepers telling doctors little about the
urgency of a call.
The debate at the BMA conference in Llandudno
also raises the issue of patients using mobiles.
Mr Minkoff suggested having times, such as
during visiting hours, when patients could use
phones. The Chelsea and Westminster hospital
already allows patients to use their phones in
some areas".
Text Messages Save Hospital Cash - Feb
9 2004
Sending reminders to patients by text
messaging for doctor appointments has not only
proven popular and effective but has turned out
to be a cost-saving measure for the Norfolk and
Norwich University Hospital in the UK. Patients
who skip appointments or fail to cancel them
have been costing Norfolk's health service an
estimated £1.5 million a year, with close to
30,000 patients not showing up. Since the SMS
reminder service has been in place (last
Spring), the number of DNAs (Did Not Attend) has
been cut by more than half and has saved an
estimated £18,000.
Evening News 24
Want to Donate Blood? Just SMS - Aug
16 2003
Nothing quite beats the January 2001 campaign
by
The UK National Blood Service, inviting
students to come kiss a vampire (aka Sarah
Michelle Gellar, star of TV cult series "Buffy
and the Vampires") but the "Be a blood donor,
Save a life" campaign launched in Chennai India
aims to get donors to sign up by texting in
their blood type to a designated short code,
according to the
The Hindu Business Line.
Text Service Brings Health Message to
Youth - July 27 2003
Encouraged by the success of a confidential
scheme introduced in February in Melbourn and
Harston (UK), South Cambridgeshire Primary Care
Trust (NHS)
has extended it to Linton and Sawston.
By contacting the Health Text-Messaging
service anonymously, 11 to 16-year-olds can get
advice on sexual health, drugs, alcohol and even
relationships, according to
Cambridge News.
Other campaigns/health advice text
messaging services offered elsewhere:
--
Dare To Say No!: A text messaging campaign
launched by the European Union this year, to
warn teenagers about the dangers related to
smoking and tobacco. Launched April 1st in most
European countries, it will continue until 2004.
-- SMS campaign against cannabis:
The British Lung Foundation (BLF) sent out
30,000 texts messages early March, to young
adults to raise awareness that smoking cannabis
can be harfmul to their health.
-- A French government ministry, La Mission
Interministrielle de lutte contre la drogue et
la toxicomanie en France (Mildt), sent out
20'000 SMS last Spring, inviting young people to
visit their
website on drugs and alcohol prevention.
--
Wired report how a wireless service in
Singapore (where mobile penetration is greater
than 75 percent - it's 51 percent in the US)
encouraged young citizens to talk about sex last
Fall, in a Sex in the Air campaign initiated by
Action for AIDS. The service encourages
subscribers to send sex-related questions by SMS
to an international panel of doctors and health
educators, with answered returned within 48
hours.
Pollen Count Text Alerts - May 4 2003
Leading pharmaceutical company
Novartis are offering a Pollen Count text
alert service to promote the launch of a new
allergy nasal spray (Aller-eze) for hay fever
sufferers, during National Allergy Week 2003
(12-18 May) in England.
According
160characters.org, the Pollen-Count Alert
text message service enables sufferers to
receive personalised, up-to-date, regular pollen
count information by SMS with special alerts on
days when the pollen count is particularly high
in their geographic location - together with
tips to help manage hay fever.
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