Technology Could Transform Care for People on Medicaid

For diabetes patients who want reminders about when to take their insulin, or young mothers looking for tips on nursing, new digital technologies — from apps and text-messaging services to remote monitoring tools and wearable sensors — are making life easier and even leading to better outcomes.

One nonprofit focused on a mobile technology for lower-income patients, called CareMessage, has found that when a free clinic sent patients with diabetes two daily questions and two weekly educational messages over 12 weeks, the patients had lower blood glucose levels than they did before the texts. CareMessage is just one of a growing...