Becker's Healthcare May 22, 2023
As healthcare information exchanges sought to solve EHR interoperability issues, John Halamka, MD, president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, said they haven’t worked due to their lack of business model, Computer World reported May 22.
“It gets back to the question of where are the standards? Where are the mandates? Where are the business cases?” Dr. Halamka said. “For all the talk about faxes being unsecure, unreliable, 1980s tech, at least across [healthcare] disciplines, it does seem pretty universal.”
As healthcare providers, payers and pharmacies all have the telephone end nodes to enable faxes, fax still remains one of the main modes for...