Ensocare Blog We Owe It to Patients to Eliminate Faxing: Here’s How to Get Started

Cable television is obsolete. VHS and cassette tapes are novelty throwbacks to a different time. Most kids couldn’t tell you what a landline is. Yet, for all that, healthcare still relies on the fax machine, a similarly dated tech artifact, as a critical part of the transmission of information. This needs to end. Visit any healthcare IT conference or read any trade publication, and you come away excited about the possibilities of artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, genomics and the many ways in which experts are pushing the limits of what’s possible. But it doesn’t take much time actually navigating the healthcare space to be brought back down to the real world, where clinics, hospitals and the wide array of secondary and tertiary services that support the healthcare field continue to use an outdated mode of data transmission that other industries have sailed past.