Standard cloud faxing still requires some manual tasks Assuming your organization uses fax to exchange documents that are critical to your operations — contracts, requests for quotes, purchase orders, patient records, etc. — your staff needs to monitor those fax numbers frequently and take quick action when a document comes in. A business that’s slow […]
Wouldn’t an Alexa be great for handling your inbound faxes? Imagine that your medical practice had an Amazon Echo sitting beside your office fax machine and that it was capable of carrying out a command like this: “Alexa, whenever a fax comes in, please do the following: Sounds like a fantasy, right? If your organization […]
So, we’re all still faxing patient information. Amazing, isn’t it? Many years ago, CMS Administrator Seema Verma challenged the industry to make doctors’ offices a “fax free” zone by 2020. That didn’t happen. In late 2021, federal health official Steve Posnack told Bloomberg Law that at least 70% of healthcare organizations still use fax machines […]
From a care-coordination standpoint, it would be ideal if a patient’s entire healthcare journey took place in a single location. The patient’s primary care physician could take an elevator to the surgical floor and speak directly with that team about the unique circumstances of the patient’s upcoming procedure. After surgery, the acute-care staff could walk […]
Imagine this scenario. While visiting his daughter and grandchild out of state, a man experiences shortness of breath and chest pains. His daughter rushes him to an urgent care. Thanks to their patient query technology, the medical staff is able to quickly locate important data from the man’s primary care physician before treating him. Score […]
