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FAQ Friday: What Support Does Lane Offer After Implementation?

Lane’s support relationship with customers does not end at go-live. Implementation is the beginning of an ongoing partnership, and the support structure that follows is designed for the kind of mission-critical environments that Passport and Fax 2.0 serve. What Post-Implementation Support Covers Lane’s support team is available to help with transmission troubleshooting, routing configuration questions,

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How Fax Fits Into a Zero-Trust Security Framework

Zero-trust security is a framework built on a single principle: never trust, always verify. Traditional network security assumed that anything inside the corporate perimeter could be trusted. Zero-trust assumes that the perimeter is effectively gone, that users are accessing systems from a variety of locations and devices, and that every access request needs to be

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What Happens to a Fax When the Receiving Side Has No Internet Connection

One of the most frequently asked questions about cloud-based fax platforms is what happens when the recipient does not have internet connectivity. The question reflects a reasonable concern: if modern fax routes over IP networks, does that mean it only works when both sides are online and on compatible infrastructure? The answer is no, and

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Community clinic sending a patient referral by fax to a specialist outside its network

Why Fax Is the Last Mile of Healthcare Interoperability

The concept of the last mile comes from telecommunications infrastructure. Building fiber optic cable to a neighborhood is technically and economically feasible. Getting that fiber into every individual home is the hard part, the last mile where the cost and complexity per connection is highest and where the aggregate infrastructure investment cannot easily scale. Healthcare

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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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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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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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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.