Incentivizing community health workers responsible for connecting LTBI patients with health infrastructure, and using non-incentive based strategies to engage patients in care, such as cellular phone text messaging, are other potential ways to improve patient adherence.
All subjects were encouraged to practice precautions, such as gargling, washing hands, and wearing a mask, through a circular, university website, and/or cellular phone text messages.
A person concerned about a changing mole or a new mole can capture an image of a given lesion with a cellular phone and send it via multimedia messaging service (MMS) to a specialized telemedicine centre for triage.
At the same time, the Ministry of Information has been sending text messages to all the cellular phone users in the country with messages like, "Let us unite against our common enemy," a reference, no doubt, to Iraq.
BlitzMail, the campus e-mail network, plays a tremendous role in social life, as students tend to use it for communication in lieu of cellular phones or instant messaging programs.
The study enrollment excluded patients without a text message function on their cellular phone or who were unable to use text messages for any reason.
Objects that appeared to be explosive devices were set on the stage and tied to the walls and the balcony, said Nikolai Ilyin, whose sister, Olga, 24, was sending him messages by cellular phone from inside.
Smartphones support several means of communication including voice calling, video calling, text messaging, email messaging, multimedia (text, image, and video) messaging, and conferencing through the cellular phone service provider.
