eFax Blog Archive

The MEDITECH Advantage: Why EHR Integration Experience Matters

EHR integration decisions are rarely limited to the EHR itself. For healthcare leaders, they also determine how well the organization will manage interfaces, preserve operational continuity, and support future interoperability. In MEDITECH environments, those decisions carry even more weight because interface complexity tends to expand during upgrades, consolidations, and broader digital transformation efforts.This is where...
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Breaking Down Barriers: The Impact of Cloud Faxing on Modern Clinical Practices

Clinical staff often spend countless hours managing extensively manual tasks trapped in outdated document workflows, pulling them away from patient care. Physical fax machines, busy signals, and lost paperwork create frustrating bottlenecks for medical practices of all sizes. To address these challenges, Bill French, Senior Director of Partnerships at eFax®, and Marcy McDade, Executive Director...
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Streamline Clinical Workflows Through EHR Integration

From Paper to Progress: Faxing to the Future

Legacy communication methods present a significant roadblock for healthcare organizations striving to modernize their technology infrastructure. While electronic health records have digitized patient data, the reliance on traditional paper fax machines continues to burden IT budgets, compromise data security, and stall operational efficiency.Recent regulatory changes, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pushing...
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Modernize Government Workflows With Secure Cloud Fax

Modernization Without the Migraine: The Bridge Your Agency Actually Needs

Government IT strategy is at a crucial juncture. Mandates like Executive Order 14058 on customer experience and OMB M-22-09 on Zero Trust demand a swift transition to secure, digital-first services. Yet, a significant gap persists between these modernization goals and the paper-based reality inside many program offices.This reliance on antiquated paper fax workflows creates a...
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Eliminating Communication Breakdowns in Post-Acute Care with NLP AI Technologies

A patient with metastatic cancer arrived at a skilled nursing facility, where she, unfortunately, was supposed to be admitted into hospice care. However, the paper-based packet of discharge orders that accompanied her transfer didn’t contain the instructions for hospice care or pain relief. And because this breakdown in information transfer occurred on a Friday afternoon,...
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Mitigating Federal Cyber Risk: From Legacy Fax to Secure Cloud

Federal agencies operate in a high-stakes environment where mission delivery and national security depend on data integrity. Yet, much of the infrastructure supporting critical government functions remains anchored to legacy systems that create significant, and often unaddressed, cybersecurity risks. Outdated fax servers, analog phone lines, and fragmented paper-based workflows are not just inefficient; they are...
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Why Backward Compatibility is the Strategic Priority Your C-Suite Shouldn’t Ignore

Backward compatibility—making a new system compatible with an existing operating system—rarely enters C-suite conversations in healthcare, but it should.That’s because even as healthcare executives expect to make deeper investments in system integration this year, achieving integration becomes faster and far less expensive when leaders explore solutions that help systems talk with each other. This eliminates...
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HIMSS 2026: The Three Core Trends Shaping Healthcare IT Priorities

Over 24,000 healthcare professionals converged at this year’s HIMSS Global Health Conference in Las Vegas, and one thing was clear: Healthcare leaders are now operating under a mandate of pragmatism, demanding measurable value, auditable governance, and solutions that solve the industry’s most persistent problem: unstructured data.During a HIMSS member focus group session organized and moderated...
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