Chloe Williams

Healthcare IT timeline showing fax volume holding steady through waves of digital transformation

How Fax Has Survived Every Wave of Digital Transformation and Why

There have been at least five major waves of digital transformation in the past three decades, each of which was predicted to displace fax as a business communication channel. EHR adoption was supposed to replace it. Health information exchanges were supposed to replace it. Secure email was supposed to replace it. Unified communications platforms were […]

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developer diagram showing an EHR system sending an automated fax through the Passport API

FAQ Friday: Can Passport Send Faxes Automatically From a Business Application?

Yes. Passport supports automated fax transmission from business applications through its API and through certified integrations with a range of EHR, LIS, CRM, and document management platforms. Automated fax is one of the primary ways that high-volume organizations use Passport to eliminate the manual initiation step from fax-dependent workflows. How Automated Fax Works Passport’s API

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Compliance officer comparing modern fax encryption standards against legacy email security

How the Definition of Secure Communication Has Changed and Where Fax Fits

The definition of secure communication has changed substantially over the past three decades, and the platforms that were considered secure in earlier eras may not meet the standards that current regulatory frameworks and threat environments require. Understanding how those standards have evolved, and where fax fits in the current landscape, is relevant for any organization

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IT team reviewing rising fax volume and reliability after modernizing enterprise fax infrastructure

Why Organizations That Have Modernized Fax Are Not Talking About Eliminating It

There is a specific pattern that emerges when you talk to organizations that have modernized their fax infrastructure rather than deferred it. They are not talking about when they will eliminate fax. They are talking about volume that is higher than they expected, workflows that are running more smoothly than they did before, compliance postures

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Hospital IT team using both HL7 interoperability and secure fax for external communication

What Fax and Interoperability Have in Common and Why They Are Not in Competition

Every wave of healthcare interoperability investment has been accompanied by predictions that fax would be its casualty. HL7 interfaces would replace fax. Health information exchanges would replace fax. Meaningful Use and EHR adoption would replace fax. FHIR-based APIs would replace fax. Each prediction has followed the same pattern: the new capability would cover what fax

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Business offices connected across a universal fax network without shared platform enrollment

How Fax Became the Default Channel for Cross-Organization Communication

Fax did not become the default channel for cross-organizational document transmission through a deliberate industry decision or a regulatory mandate. It became the default because it was adopted widely at a specific moment in the development of organizational communications infrastructure, it worked reliably across organizational boundaries in a way that no alternative did, and by

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IT administrator verifying fax numbers ported successfully to a new cloud fax platform

Why Fax Number Porting Matters More Than Most Organizations Realize

When organizations evaluate a fax platform migration, the conversation typically centers on platform features, compliance architecture, integration capability, and cost. Fax number porting is often treated as an administrative detail to be sorted out during implementation. Organizations that have been through a migration know it is not a detail. It is one of the most

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Medical review officer receiving a toxicology chain of custody form by fax

How Toxicology Labs Use Fax for Chain of Custody and Result Delivery

Toxicology laboratories sit at the intersection of clinical medicine, workplace compliance, legal proceedings, and public safety in a way that few other laboratory disciplines do. The results they generate are used to guide treatment decisions for overdose patients, determine employment outcomes for workers subject to drug testing programs, provide evidence in criminal and civil legal

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IT director assessing enterprise fax infrastructure as part of an organizational risk review

How Fax Infrastructure Reflects an Organization’s Approach to Risk

Infrastructure decisions reveal organizational values in ways that strategy documents and mission statements do not. The systems an organization invests in, maintains carefully, and treats as mission-critical reflect what it actually believes matters. The systems it defers, tolerates in a degraded state, and manages reactively reflect a different set of priorities, often implicitly held rather

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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.