Chloe Williams

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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data flow diagram showing fax content deletion after delivery with only transmission metadata retained

FAQ Friday: What Happens to Fax Content After It Is Delivered?

After a fax is delivered through Fax 2.0 and the etherFAX network, the fax content is destroyed using FIPS 140-2 compliant deletion. The document itself does not persist in Lane’s or etherFAX’s infrastructure after delivery is confirmed. Only the call record details, the transmission metadata including timestamp, sender, recipient, and delivery status, are retained for

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healthcare compliance officer reviewing a signed HIPAA Business Associate Agreement with a fax vendor

FAQ Friday: Does Lane Support HIPAA Business Associate Agreements?

Yes. Lane enters into HIPAA Business Associate Agreements with healthcare customers as a standard part of the Passport and Fax 2.0 implementation process. A BAA is not an optional add-on or a premium tier requirement. It is a baseline component of how Lane works with covered entities and their business associates. Why This Matters Any

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Revenue cycle team tracking prior authorization appeal deadlines on a fax dashboard

How Revenue Cycle Teams Use Fax to Manage Prior Auth Denials and Appeals

Prior authorization denials are one of the most significant and persistent sources of revenue cycle risk in healthcare. The American Medical Association’s 2024 prior authorization survey documented that physicians and their staff spend an average of nearly two full business days per week on prior authorization tasks, and that the volume of denial and appeal

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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.