Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 9, 2020

Very few businesses today use fax machines, yet more than 9 billion faxes are still sent every year in healthcare, according to DirectTrust. The article Are Providers Ready For The End of Fax? This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Garrett thought record retrieval would rid itself of the fax machine in 2023. Through our research with our partners at Sage Growth, we found that only 62% of providers and 38% of payers have adopted the FHIR standard for their data interoperability use cases. Sadly, he was wrong. is drafted. is drafted.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2023

For example, using automation with AI to replace manual data entry, lengthy progress note writing, phone calls (and faxes – still!) AI is really good at detecting anomalies to a standard answer like “Is this recipe ready to be served?” However, it cannot fully nor successfully replace a human. Colin Banas, M.D.,

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Redox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Payers, providers, regulators, and patients rarely agree, but they are united in their disdain for prior authorization. In 2018, providers and payers released a consensus statement that called for improvements, and in 2019, the ONC leader had some choice words. It might, quite literally, be the worst. But, fear not. It’s expensive.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 31, 2019

They claimed that they needed my knee MRI report faxed to them because of HIPAA. I told them I didn’t have a fax machine, and why didn’t they have a secure portal for these? I did consulting about a decade ago for a teaching hospital that was being built to advise on how to make sure the layout promoted it being “EHR ready.”

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HIStalk Interviews

MARCH 6, 2019

At the end of that, you have your staff. I invited health system CIOs to interview with me anonymously, knowing from unfortunate personal experience that health systems don’t like their executives going off script to a national audience. CIOs willing to do the same can contact me to arrange a fun conversation. You serve many masters.

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