title: Improving patient compliance with best practices guidelines: a web based automated and personalized reminders system.
abstract: Health Reminders is a prototype application that delivers personalized guidelines and recommended testing to the patient at the appropriate time and through multiple communication channels such as email, web, cellular text messaging (Simplified Message Service), automatic insertion into Personal Information Managers (schedulers like MS Outlook) as appointments and tasks.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 622 West 168th Street,Vanderbilt Clinic, 5th Floor, New York, New York 10032, USA.
authors.forename: Franklin M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Din
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: Sameer
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Malhotra
authors.forename: John L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Zimmerman
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kukafka
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D010349:Patient Compliance; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017010:Reminder Systems