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Re: Faxing is growing in popularity

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Post by conanbatt »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #46
JohnFen wrote: post #42

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This is just not true as a blanket statement. I am as cutting-edge tech-wise as anybody (it is my industry, after all), but that doesn't blind me to the fact that there do, in fact, exist use cases for which the fax is the best solution.

Everyone has a camera on a device that can send emails. Unless the internet went down and for some reason the phone system still worked, I can't think of any scenario where fax is better than emailing photos.

It is very dangerous to hold third party medical records in everyone's devices. It is also not integrated with the systems required to record care, so you still need to build a custom integration.

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Post by conanbatt »

knob wrote: post #75

This hits close to home. Anybody has thought of sending faxes with QR codes? Receiving systems that have the ability can get the fax's information quickly via QR code, instead of having to OCR the fax. If the system doesn't support the capability, it's just ignored (by the fax machine and humans). Might be helpful.

Already exists. Not a silver bullet. Each place has to transform the incoming fax format into their own emr format.

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Post by sfopdxnonstop »

wutbrodo wrote: post #56
newhotelowner wrote: post #50

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- Not all hotel owner/operator can write code. - Spam: We get tons of spam FAXes too. But compare to emails, way less spam. - Also, most of the people who send out fax have a hard time scanning and emailing documents.

> Not all hotel owner/operator can write code. Yea, dont worry, I wasn't going for the "lol why doesn't everyone just learn Python and spin up a Docker container on ECS" trope. That's why I specified a lightweight piece of software, which is how everything used to work before the rise of the Web and mobile devices changed software distribution. > Also, most of the people who send out fax have a hard time scanning and…

Nah people complained about software bloat before the internet too. They e been doing that since the invention of compilers.

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Post by basch »

fiddlerwoaroof wrote: post #111
basch wrote: post #109

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In the context of medical records, as a patient, id like to be able to download and transport my records without an office needing to pull out paper and copy it for me.

They can always scan them and send you the image.

So instead of me making a call to a database, a human has to be involved before I get my data.

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Post by nradov »

giarc wrote: post #118
nradov wrote: post #91

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Epic will work fine for this, but every other EHR released in the past several years is also capable of receiving electronic microbiology reports. Your office must have been using something really obsolete before that.

The hospitals in my city were using Sunrise and the micro reports are included in Results tab but for some reason we still get faxes (legacy practices maybe). The problem is the province wanted one system across all sites. Currently there are a ton of different EMRs used by different hospitals that obviously don't talk to each other. So transferring a patient between sites, even down the road basically involves print…

In theory any modern EHR should be able to export an HL7 C-CDA 2.1 CCD containing all essential parts of the patient's chart, and then deliver that to another provider via secure Direct Project messaging. But in practice many organizations don't have those features properly configured, or the connections haven't been established, or staff haven't been properly trained.

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Post by shliachtx »

giarc wrote: post #60
shliachtx wrote: post #44

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> Luckily we are moving to Epic This may be the first time those words were used together in a sentence.

I work in Alberta and we have 5 distinct health care regions although we all work under one umbrella organization. All regions use different EMR systems, some regions and major hospitals are still not currently using any system, and all orders are written by hand. So an opinion on Epic as an EMR is perhaps minor compared to EMR vs hand written systems.

Of course. It is definitely exciting to have a computerized system. I just found it somewhat amusing considering Epic's reputation.

Re: Faxing is growing in popularity

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Post by giarc »

shliachtx wrote: post #126
giarc wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I work in Alberta and we have 5 distinct health care regions although we all work under one umbrella organization. All regions use different EMR systems, some regions and major hospitals are still not currently using any system, and all orders are written by hand. So an opinion on Epic as an EMR is perhaps minor compared to EMR vs hand written systems.

Of course. It is definitely exciting to have a computerized system. I just found it somewhat amusing considering Epic's reputation.

What is Epic's reputation? It's coming with pretty big fanfare here in Alberta.

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Post by yellowapple »

Qwertystop wrote: post #116
yellowapple wrote: post #88

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> Also, it's much better for our Front desk staff, as they don't have to constantly check the email. There is only 1 fax number, and anyone can send out the fax and whoever is working at the front desk gets a printed copy without doing anything. Seems like the answer here is to just have a "fax machine" but replace "phone number" with "email address" and automatically print any documents sent to it ("documents" being…

Now there's a spam filter and suddenly you get all the unreliability that comes with that from email (someone can claim the filter must have blocked it, and there's no proving otherwise).

Well yeah, you either guarantee that all messages are received or you filter out unwanted messages. Depends on what's the more pressing issue.

Re: Faxing is growing in popularity

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Post by fiddlerwoaroof »

basch wrote: post #124
fiddlerwoaroof wrote: post #111

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They can always scan them and send you the image.

So instead of me making a call to a database, a human has to be involved before I get my data.

There's no reason they have to store the faxed doucments in paper form (except, possibly, for questions of authenticity but, even then, they could also save a digital version of every fax they receive)
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