Healthcare is a technologically sophisticated industry where robots are used to conduct surgery and telecommunications allow physicians to treat patients remotely from hundreds, if not thousands, of ...

Fax machines and servers may be old tech, but they're trusted. And, until someone comes up with a more secure and prolific method for transmitting patient information and prescription requests, the ...

As hospitals rapidly digitalize products and services, healthcare providers are still using fax machines to share medical data, Bloomberg Law reported Nov. 4. Although EHRs have been widely adopted ...

On any given day, oncologist Mark Lewis, MD, feels like he's seesawing between two eras of technology. One minute, he's working on sequencing a tumor genome. The next, he's sifting through pages of ...

Drug Mart Pharmacy, an independent drugstore in South Plainfield, New Jersey. Credit - Art Author, Public Domain (CC0 1.0) Drug Mart Pharmacy, an independent drugstore in South Plainfield, New Jersey.

The world has moved past the era of floppy disks and dial-up tones. Now, it revolves around apps, encrypted emails, and real-time messaging. So, naturally, you'll peg the humble fax machine as one of ...

Communication is happening everywhere in healthcare—at every handoff and patient interaction, information is being exchanged. It's not surprising, then, that this leads to communication bottlenecks ...

A co-worker recently observed to me, “I can’t believe it’s almost 2023, and we are still using fax machines!” I nodded in agreement, and also started wondering why that was the case. According to ...

When it comes to communication, it looks like the healthcare industry got stuck in a time warp. A new survey finds that healthcare organizations are still heavily reliant on 1970s technology, with 89% ...