In order to improve communication among staff members while remaining HIPAA-compliant, many hospitals and health systems are turning to secure texting solutions. The following stories on secure ...

This is your signal to invest in secure messaging. After The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was mistakenly added to a Signal group chat involving top White House officials, it begs the ...

The Joint Commission recently announced a lift to its ban on secure texting among clinicians. This is big news for healthcare as the earlier ban prohibited texting between providers due to security ...

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Have you been using the new RCS format to send texts between an iPhone and an Android phone? If so, you could be exposing your messages to snooping by foreign hackers. In a news call with reporters on ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has clarified that while it's permissible for healthcare entities to use secure texting platforms for communicating certain patient information, the use of ...

You probably use text message, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or even Instagram to chat with others. And while those messaging apps work fine, some still seek out alternatives that lean hard into a ...

The medical team at Asheville, North Carolina-based Mission Health system reported a significant increase in the ability to locate staff across fields after a hospital messaging system was implemented ...

Apple's messaging app Messages has adopted a new cross-platform messaging standard called RCS. Here's how to be sure you have it enabled on your iPhone, and what new features it gives you when ...

The private messaging Signal is not a secure government network but it is used by many government officials and journalists. NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Matt Blaze, cybersecurity expert and professor ...