The relationship between IT teams and fax infrastructure has historically been reactive. The fax server runs until something breaks. When something breaks, IT investigates. When a user reports that a fax did not arrive, IT checks the logs. When a compliance audit requires transmission records, IT pulls whatever the server retained. That reactive posture is […]
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Organizations grow. They acquire new facilities, expand into new markets, add provider networks, and onboard new lines of business. The technology infrastructure that supports those organizations typically scales with that growth, at least for the systems that get attention and investment. EHRs get upgraded. Networks get expanded. Storage gets provisioned. Fax infrastructure is often the
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The conventional prediction about fax volume over the past decade was straightforward: EHR adoption would drive fax down. As clinical documentation moved into electronic systems and those systems became more interoperable, the need to transmit documents externally by fax would decline. By the mid-2020s, fax would be a niche channel used only in edge cases
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Trust in a communication channel is not arbitrary. It is built on a specific set of properties: that the document reaches the intended recipient, that there is a record confirming it arrived, that the content cannot be easily intercepted or altered in transit, and that the channel works consistently regardless of what technology the other
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Passport supports TIFF, PDF, and Microsoft Office document formats for outbound fax transmission. In practice, that means the documents your team is already working with, reports generated by your EHR, PDFs from your document management system, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and standard image formats, can be sent directly through Passport without requiring manual conversion or
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When a fax fails, Passport does not go silent. The platform detects the failure, retries the transmission automatically, and alerts the relevant parties if the document cannot be delivered after the configured number of attempts. That might sound like a basic expectation, but it is not what most organizations experience with legacy fax servers or
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Public health surveillance depends on a chain of communication that begins in the laboratory. When a clinical or public health laboratory identifies a result that meets the criteria for a reportable condition, state law and federal regulations require the laboratory to notify the appropriate public health authority within a defined timeframe. That notification is the
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Prior authorization is one of the most administratively burdensome workflows in American healthcare, and it is not getting better. The American Medical Association’s 2024 survey on prior authorization found that physicians and their staff spend an average of nearly 14 hours per week completing prior authorization requests, and that more than one in three physicians
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Most organizations that have thought carefully about their fax platform have thought about transmission security, delivery confirmation, and cost. Fewer have thought carefully about routing, which is the configuration layer that determines what actually happens to a fax after it arrives or before it sends. Routing is where the operational value of an enterprise fax
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When healthcare IT teams make the case for fax infrastructure investment, they typically frame it as an IT modernization project: lower maintenance costs, better compliance posture, reduced staff overhead. Those are legitimate arguments, and they are often sufficient to justify the investment on financial and operational grounds alone. What that framing misses is that fax
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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.
