YourNurseIsOn.com

Your Nurse Is On is an awarding-winning healthcare communications platform founded by an entrepreneurial healthcare practitioner in response to the need for more efficient staff communications. YNIO is the first software communications solution designed for healthcare that offers two-way messages via voice, SMS and email for real-time response capture. YNIO automates vacant shift fulfillment notifications and important organizational messages so that your Company can focus on patient care.

Here is a video of CEO Matthew Browning (@matthewbrowning) on Fox 61:



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Dermatology Clinic Drives New Business with SMS (Texting)

I wrote about this last week on MedicalSmartphones.com, but I wanted to mention it again because several people have been asking me about the role of SMS (texting) in the professional medical field.

You can read the story here.

Health Effects of Texting in Teens

Do you text? I'm not a huge fan of texting, but I tweet like crazy (however, most of my tweets are automated). Teenagers and other young people have taken texting to an entirely new level by creating a language of acronyms that can only be understood for those who are familiar with texting. According to the Nielsen Company, teens sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008. Wow!

The NY Times has an article on the health effects of texting. Physicians and psychologists are worried about anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation. That doesn't sound good, does it? The article quotes Sherry Turkle, a psychologist who is director of the Initiative on Technology and Self at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Here's a snippet of the quote: "Among the jobs of adolescence are to separate from your parents, and to find the peace and quiet to become the person you decide you want to be," she said. "Texting hits directly at both those jobs."

Frequent typing on tiny thumb keyboards can also cause BlackBerry thumb.