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How Passport’s Workgroup Routing Reduces Missed Faxes in High-Volume Environments

In a busy hospital lab, a fax containing a critical patient result arrives at 2 a.m. There is no one stationed at the machine. By morning, three people have walked past the tray without acting on it. By the time it reaches the right hands, the ordering physician has already called twice. This is not […]

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What Is an Integrated Messaging Platform and Why Does Your Business Need One?

Modern organizations face a growing communication challenge. Teams send and receive documents across fax, email, file transfer, and cloud systems simultaneously, often with no single point of visibility or control. An integrated messaging platform solves this by consolidating all document transmission into one centralized, secure, and trackable system. What Is an Integrated Messaging Platform? An

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Famous Faxes in History: Moments When Fax Changed the World

The fax machine is often dismissed as obsolete technology, a relic of the 1980s office that should have disappeared alongside the rolodex and the overhead projector. That narrative misses something important. Fax technology has been shaping communication for nearly two centuries, and some of the most consequential documents in modern history traveled over fax lines

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How to Sign Documents Digitally for Faxing: A Complete Guide

The combination of digital signatures and fax transmission addresses one of the most common document workflow challenges in modern business: how to send a signed document securely and with a verifiable record, without printing, signing by hand, and feeding paper into a machine. The good news is that digital signatures and digital faxing work together

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Can Digital Faxing Services Send to Traditional Fax Machines?

One of the most common questions from organizations considering a switch to digital faxing is whether they can still communicate with recipients who use traditional, physical fax machines. The answer is yes, and understanding how this works helps clarify why digital faxing is a practical upgrade rather than a disruptive replacement. How Digital Faxing and

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Lane EPIC Fax Integration: How to Connect Your EHR with Secure Fax Communication

Healthcare organizations using the EPIC electronic health record (EHR) platform face a persistent communication challenge: a significant portion of clinical and administrative document exchange still happens over fax. Referrals, lab results, prescriptions, discharge summaries, and prior authorizations routinely travel between providers via fax, because fax provides a secure, HIPAA-compatible transmission method that works across institutions

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FAQ Friday: How Do Fax Integrations Boost Business Workflows?

By making faxing invisible. When fax capabilities are embedded directly into the systems your team uses every day, faxing stops being a separate, manual task and starts becoming part of how work actually flows. That shift has a real impact on how efficiently your organization operates. Why Standalone Faxing Creates Bottlenecks In environments where faxing

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A Comprehensive Guide to Online Fax Services for Small Businesses

Small businesses today operate in a fast-moving environment where secure, reliable document transmission is not optional. Whether you are sending contracts, invoices, compliance records, or patient referrals, the way you transmit sensitive documents directly affects your efficiency, liability, and professional credibility. Online fax services have become an essential tool for small businesses looking to modernize

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The Environmental Impact of Faxing: Myths vs. Realities

Conversations about sustainability in business communications often treat fax as a relic that belongs in the past, not just technologically but environmentally. The assumption is that faxing is inherently wasteful: machines running on standby power, reams of thermal paper consumed daily, toner cartridges piling up in landfills. But that picture reflects traditional fax infrastructure, not

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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.