Medica Partners in First-Ever Free Mobile Health Service to Provide Health ... NewsBlaze
Minnesota Health Care Program (MHCP) recipients who receive their coverage through Medica are the primary audience for Medica's text4baby outreach program, although it is available to any member with a mobile device. About one-third of U.S. adults living in or near the poverty line live in a household served by only a wireless telephone, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. About 20 percent of adults with higher incomes live in households with only wireless telephones. According to a Harris Interactive poll, while 90 percent of Americans have a mobile phone fewer have access to the Internet, and texting is more prevalent among women of childbearing age.
"Medica is proud to be a part of text4baby," said Glenn Andis, Medica
Text4baby is a free mobile information service designed to promote
Medica's Healthy Pregnancy program nurses will educate members who are www.medica.com/text4baby