Case Study: Txt4Health: Using Mobile Health Technology in the New Orleans Beacon Community

In June, 2011, after brief meetings with ONC Beacon Program staff, Voxiva, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the American Diabetes Association (ADA), were signed up for testing a text4baby-like diabetes program. Of the 17 Beacon communities, New Orleans and Detroit were the first two (later to be joined by a third, Cincinnati) Beacons to announce plans to test a public health diabetes awareness program that will use Voxiva’s mobile health technology and work with the CDC and ADA to develop the right content for such a public health program.

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