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How Outpatient Imaging Centers Handle Fax-Heavy Referral Workflows

Outpatient imaging centers occupy a specific position in the healthcare referral ecosystem. They receive patients sent by primary care physicians, orthopedic practices, oncologists, neurologists, and a wide range of other specialists. Every one of those referrals arrives with documentation: an order, insurance authorization information, relevant clinical history, and sometimes prior imaging reports for comparison. The […]

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Behavioral health intake coordinator routing an inbound referral fax to the correct program workgroup through the Passport platform

How Behavioral Health Organizations Use Fax for Referrals, Consent, and Care Coordination

Behavioral health organizations operate under some of the most stringent document handling requirements in all of healthcare. Mental health records and substance use disorder treatment records carry heightened confidentiality protections beyond standard HIPAA, including the federal regulations at 42 CFR Part 2 that govern substance use disorder patient records and impose specific restrictions on disclosure

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Healthcare staff sending and receiving faxes from within Microsoft Teams using the Passport Fax App integration

Fax Integration With Microsoft Teams: What It Means for Healthcare Communication Workflows

Microsoft Teams has become the daily communication hub for a large and growing share of enterprise and healthcare organizations. Chat, video, file sharing, and task management all happen inside Teams for organizations that have deployed it, and the expectation among users is increasingly that the tools they need should be accessible from within that environment

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Small medical practice staff sending and receiving trackable HIPAA-compliant faxes through the Passport Small Business Edition platform

Passport Small Business Edition: Who It’s For and When It’s the Right Choice

Lane’s Passport platform is most often discussed in the context of large health systems, multi-site enterprises, and high-volume laboratory environments. Those are the organizations where the scalability and routing complexity of Passport Enterprise are most visibly valuable, and they represent a significant portion of the Lane customer base. But the Passport Small Business Edition (SBE)

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Health system IT administrator managing multi-site fax infrastructure in Lane Passport enterprise platform dashboard showing centralized routing and HIPAA compliance controls

How Passport Scales With You: From Single-Site Clinics to Multi-State Health Systems

Healthcare organizations grow in unpredictable ways. A single-site outpatient clinic becomes a regional network. A regional network acquires a pathology group. A health system merges with a competitor and suddenly needs to consolidate fax infrastructure across dozens of locations, EHR instances, and IT environments. Most fax solutions were not designed for that trajectory. They were

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How to Create a Fax Retention Policy That Meets Compliance Standards

If your organization sends or receives faxes containing Protected Health Information, a documented fax retention policy isn’t optional. It’s required. Yet most healthcare organizations either don’t have one, have one that’s incomplete, or have one that was written years ago and never updated to reflect how fax workflows have actually evolved. This guide covers what

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Why Clinical Labs Still Rely on Fax (And Why That’s Not Changing)

If you’ve spent any time working in or around a clinical laboratory, you already know the answer. Fax isn’t going anywhere. Despite decades of promises that email, EHR portals, and secure messaging would finally kill it, fax remains one of the most widely used communication methods in healthcare, and labs are at the center of

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What Makes a Fax Service Truly HIPAA-Compliant? (And What to Watch Out For)

If you search “HIPAA-compliant fax,” you’ll find dozens of vendors claiming the label. But “HIPAA-compliant” is not a certification, a government designation, or a verified standard. It is a claim, and one that vendors use loosely. For healthcare organizations transmitting Protected Health Information (PHI), understanding what genuine HIPAA compliance actually requires in a fax service

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FAQ Friday: What is Lane’s Passport Personal Communications Center (PCC)?

If you’re looking for a more flexible way to manage your communications, Passport’s Personal Communications Center, or PCC, might be exactly what you need. The PCC is a powerful desktop client application that gives users a user-friendly alternative to traditional email interfaces. From your desktop, you can prepare, send, track, and receive messages directly through

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Lane is Attending the Virtual Clinisys Customer Summit 2026!

We’re thrilled to announce that Lane is a proud sponsor at this year’s Virtual Clinisys Customer Summit (CCS 2026), taking place April 7–9, 2026. This year’s event brings together a broad cross-section of the Clinisys customer community for an immersive virtual experience, featuring focused product sessions, customer success stories, and interactive workshops, all delivered live

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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.