Hospital & Healthcare Management September 2, 2025
Supposedly a relic of a bygone era to some people, the humble fax machine remains in use in some industries like healthcare. In 2021, the latest for which statistics are available, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology estimated that about 70% of healthcare organizations still rely on faxing for their communication needs. (1)
Although compliant under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), traditional faxes are under pressure to be retired. The manual effort required to work them takes doctors’ time away from performing patient care. They also aren’t practical for sending a ream’s worth of medical records to a patient.
Despite inevitable hurdles, healthcare organizations are urged to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) and...
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