mHealth Intelligence April 12, 2021
A Supreme Court ruling involving Facebook has loosened the restrictions around autodialing, giving healthcare providers more leeway to use mHealth platforms for certain text messaging services.
A recent Supreme Court ruling gives healthcare providers a little more freedom to send automated text messages to patients.
The court earlier this month sided with Facebook in a case involving the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), ruling that the company didn’t have to adhere to TCPA guidelines because it doesn’t use a messaging system that randomly or sequentially stores or generates a telephone number. In doing so, the court essentially redefined an automatic telephone dialing system, or autodialer.
Writing in the Health Care Law Today blog, attorneys for the Foley & Lardner law...
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