HealthLeaders Media May 13, 2022
Scott Mace

A new study out of the Regenstrief Institute finds doctors critical of the high volume of texts, while nurses are OK with it.

As hospitals replace pagers with smartphone-based texting platforms connecting doctors, nurses, and other clinicians, some are giving mixed reviews to the technology.

So says a new study from the Regenstrief Institute, published in the journal Applied Clinical Informatics, which found a lack of shared understanding among clinicians on how to use clinical texting.

“Clinical texting is a double-edged sword – it’s easy to contact fellow clinicians, which can be viewed as good or bad,” says Joy L. Lee, PhD, M.S., a Regenstrief Institute scientist, assistant professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and corresponding...

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