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Texting in Health Care—Preserving Impact and Managing Influx

JAMA Internal Medicine 10.1001/jamainternmed.2026.2423

June 29, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This Viewpoint offers strategies to help ensure that health care text messaging remains impactful rather than intrusive for patients.

Corresponding Author: Kimberly J. Waddell, PhD, MSCI, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1800 Lombard St, Philadelphia, PA 19146 (kimberly.waddell@pennmedicine.upenn.edu).

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