Text messaging for your health

I'm still catching up on articles from the Thanksgiving holiday, but this article from The Wall Street Journal caught my attention http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119551720462598532.html#. Drug companies and other health services are sending health information to patients by text message. Of course, there are limitations to what information you can convey in a brief text message. You can't get into the details of a diagnosis. But you can send a message to a patient to remind him to take his pills. Or a patient could ask a question and receive a text message answer about how to adjust insulin for eating at a party or what to do when a condom breaks. It is, above all, imperative that this information be accurate and understandable (especially in abbreviated text language). But as more people embrace text-messaging technology this may be another avenue to access health information and get quick and accurate answers to emerging health questions.