The countdown begins: When will your health system say goodbye to traditional faxing?
Research Assistant Professor Fraida Fund commented on hospitals and health systems that still use traditional fax, based on copper wire, running the risk of the inability to efficiently exchange crucial patient information, including referrals, prior authorizations, lab results, and prescription orders: “The copper infrastructure is old, expensive to repair and maintain, and can’t support high-speed Internet connections. Fiber is technically a much better medium for communications; you can transfer data faster over fiber than over copper.”
Researchers
Fraida Fund
Research Assistant Professor