Why does American medicine still run on fax machines?
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#2same in Australia too
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#3I'd like to see a similar piece about the law and banking industries.
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#4How else would they be transferred? E-mail isn't secure enough.
Perhaps a partial answer to the question is, 'because the IT industry hasn't provided the world with a secure, widespread, public communication medium" (by public, I mean one not controlled by a private company). The IT industry gets a lot of praise, but there are a lot of gaps in performance that we have become accustomed to overlooking.
Re: Why does American medicine still run on fax machines?
#5How else would they be transferred? E-mail isn't secure enough. Perhaps a partial answer to the question is, 'because the IT industry hasn't provided the world with a secure, widespread, public communication medium" (by public, I mean one not controlled by a private company). The IT industry gets a lot of praise, but there are a lot of gaps in performance that we have become accustomed to overlooking.
I am not sure if fax is more secure than E-mail. When I still had my machine I usually received several faxes per year with confidential information. It was always lawyers who had mistyped the fax number. And most of them used redial so they kept sending stuff until I told them they had the wrong number.
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#6What should they use instead? Email isn't secure enough. Email got not forced TLS/GPG upgrade (compared to the web's HTTPS)
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#7Half of Japan still runs on fax machines. They can still be a useful technology.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/world/asia/in-japan-the-fa...
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#8And so insecure too, my fax machine's number used to be 1 digit off from a pharmacy's .... I used to get more faxes of other people's private prescriptions than genuine faxes intended for me
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#9>The clinic has digitized its own patient data. But its electronic system can’t connect with other clinics’ records. So when doctors want to retrieve records from another office — an ultrasound for a pregnant patient, for example — they have to turn to the fax
Haven't these people at least heard of email?
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#10What should they use instead? Email isn't secure enough. Email got not forced TLS/GPG upgrade (compared to the web's HTTPS)
Email is roughly as secure as you care to make it. Better than stupid phone lines at least.