Supreme Court Ruling May Help Providers With mHealth Messaging Strategies
A Supreme Court ruling involving Facebook has loosened the restrictions around autodialing, giving healthcare providers more leeway to use mHealth platforms for certain text messaging services.
- A recent Supreme Court ruling gives healthcare providers a little more freedom to send automated text messages to patients.
The court earlier this month sided with Facebook in a case involving the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), ruling that the company didn’t have to adhere to TCPA guidelines because it doesn’t use a messaging system that randomly or sequentially stores or generates a telephone number. In doing so, the court essentially redefined an automatic telephone dialing system, or autodialer.
Writing in the Health Care Law Today blog, attorneys for the Foley & Lardner law firm said the court’s ruling will allow healthcare providers to send out “health care messages” by text without needing prior written consent from patients.