Forbes September 17, 2018
Luis Castillo

You can get almost any product in the world online. You can order food from your favorite restaurants on your phone. You can get psychiatric consultations, telehealth services and meet the love of your life by swiping right on the appropriate apps.

But when it comes to transferring patient health information (PHI) between providers, far too many enterprises are still choosing to “swipe right” on the fax machine.

This ancient secret of physicians’ clinics, skilled nursing facilities and assorted other providers became the center of discussion on August 6, when the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Seema Verma, called upon doctors’ offices to completely eliminate fax machine...

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Topics: CMS, Cybersecurity, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), HIPAA, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Technology
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