Number of patients/consumers using Direct Secure Messaging increased by 7% over the same quarter in 2021WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESSWIRE / February 21, 2023 / DirectTrust, a non-profit healthcare industry alliance
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DirectTrust announced this week that there were 719 million Direct Secure Messages sent and received this past year, bringing the total number of transactions since the nonprofit began tracking them in 2014 up past 2.1 billion at the end of 2020.
The nonprofit healthcare alliance created to support electronic exchanges of protected health information among provider organizations, and between providers and patients, reported that more than 265 million Direct Secure Messages were sent and received between DirectTrust addresses in the fourth quarter alone. Notably, it took five and a half years for the number of Direct Secure Messages exchanged to reach one billion, and just 18 months to surpass two billion, said Scott Stuewe, DirectTrust president and CEO, in a statement.