Faxing is a slow, frustrating, old technology that sets up your medical practice for failure in HIPAA audits. In this article, we discuss 7 reasons why medical practices must modernize their faxing, and what that modernization would look like.
When I first started working with medical clients, I was astonished that faxing was such an important technology in their day-to-day operations. Outside of a couple contracts that needed to immediately verify a signature, I knew of very few companies that used faxing on a regular basis.