Chloe Williams

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How Hospital-Based Labs Use Fax to Communicate Critical Values to Nursing Units

Critical value communication is one of the most patient-safety-critical workflows in a hospital-based laboratory. When a test result falls outside the range that indicates a life-threatening condition, that result needs to reach the clinical team caring for the patient immediately, and the laboratory needs documentation that the communication occurred, who received it, and when. The […]

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pediatric office staff processing a school sports physical form sent by fax

How Pediatric Practices Use Fax for Referrals, School Forms, and Care Coordination

Pediatric practices have a fax workload that looks different from most other clinical settings. In addition to the referral and care coordination workflows that all outpatient practices manage, pediatricians handle a high volume of school, camp, and sports-related forms that require timely turnaround for patients and families who have immediate needs: a sports physical clearance

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emergency department staff faxing a patient transfer summary to a receiving hospital

How Emergency Departments Use Fax for Transfers, Referrals, and External Communication

Emergency departments operate in an environment where communication speed and reliability are not preferences. They are patient safety requirements. A patient who needs to be transferred to a trauma center, a cardiac catheterization lab, or a stroke center needs that transfer to happen on a timeline measured in minutes, and the documentation that travels with

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oncology practice staff processing a prior authorization fax for chemotherapy treatment

How Oncology Practices Manage Fax Workflows for Referrals, Prior Auths, and Lab Results

Oncology practices operate at the intersection of clinical complexity and administrative intensity. A patient receiving cancer treatment may be seeing a medical oncologist, a radiation oncologist, a surgical oncologist, and a primary care physician simultaneously, with specimens going to a pathology lab, imaging going to a radiology group, and infusion treatments happening at a separate

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home health nurse reviewing physician orders received by fax at a hospice agency

How Hospice and Home Health Agencies Use Fax for Orders, Referrals, and Care Plans

Hospice and home health agencies operate in one of the most logistically complex care delivery environments in healthcare. Care is provided in the patient’s home, in assisted living facilities, and in nursing homes, by clinical staff who are dispersed across a wide geographic area and rarely in the same physical location as the administrative and

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FAQ Friday: Can Lane Support International Faxing?

Yes, and it is one of the areas where Lane’s four-decade track record gives organizations a meaningful advantage over newer fax providers. Lane supports fax transmission across more than 50 countries, with implementations ranging from large financial institutions to healthcare networks operating across multiple international markets. International faxing through Passport works through the same platform

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Outpatient imaging center scheduling team reviewing organized inbound referral faxes routed to the correct workgroup through Passport

How Outpatient Imaging Centers Handle Fax-Heavy Referral Workflows

Outpatient imaging centers occupy a specific position in the healthcare referral ecosystem. They receive patients sent by primary care physicians, orthopedic practices, oncologists, neurologists, and a wide range of other specialists. Every one of those referrals arrives with documentation: an order, insurance authorization information, relevant clinical history, and sometimes prior imaging reports for comparison. The

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Behavioral health intake coordinator routing an inbound referral fax to the correct program workgroup through the Passport platform

How Behavioral Health Organizations Use Fax for Referrals, Consent, and Care Coordination

Behavioral health organizations operate under some of the most stringent document handling requirements in all of healthcare. Mental health records and substance use disorder treatment records carry heightened confidentiality protections beyond standard HIPAA, including the federal regulations at 42 CFR Part 2 that govern substance use disorder patient records and impose specific restrictions on disclosure

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Healthcare staff sending and receiving faxes from within Microsoft Teams using the Passport Fax App integration

Fax Integration With Microsoft Teams: What It Means for Healthcare Communication Workflows

Microsoft Teams has become the daily communication hub for a large and growing share of enterprise and healthcare organizations. Chat, video, file sharing, and task management all happen inside Teams for organizations that have deployed it, and the expectation among users is increasingly that the tools they need should be accessible from within that environment

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Small medical practice staff sending and receiving trackable HIPAA-compliant faxes through the Passport Small Business Edition platform

Passport Small Business Edition: Who It’s For and When It’s the Right Choice

Lane’s Passport platform is most often discussed in the context of large health systems, multi-site enterprises, and high-volume laboratory environments. Those are the organizations where the scalability and routing complexity of Passport Enterprise are most visibly valuable, and they represent a significant portion of the Lane customer base. But the Passport Small Business Edition (SBE)

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Altera Digital Health (formerly known as Allscripts) has a proven track record of developing cutting-edge technology for healthcare systems. Lane’s Passport product is leveraged as a solution for hospitals within Altera’s ecosystem to provide faxing of lab results. With this partnership, hospitals benefit from the latest in healthcare technology, delivered by a team with years of experience in providing innovative solutions.

Lane has been an authorized partner with Clinisys (previously Sunquest) for decades. Since 1979, Clinisys has been providing diagnostic informatic solutions to laboratories and healthcare organizations. They develop, design and support a comprehensive clinical information suite for over 1200 hospitals. Clinisys is constantly evolving and pushing the boundaries of diagnostic care for pathology laboratories worldwide.