eFax Blog Archive

Reflecting on the 2025 Government Shutdown: How to Mitigate Workflow Disruptions with Digital Cloud Faxing

On October 1, 2025 the federal government entered what is now considered the longest government shutdown in U.S. history after Congress failed to pass the necessary appropriations bills to fund government operations for the new fiscal year. This impasse led to a lapse in funding for numerous federal agencies, triggering the immediate furlough of non-essential...
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IDP: How Intelligent Document Processing Helps Imaging Centers Beat the Radiologist Shortage

How Intelligent Document Processing Helps Imaging Centers Beat the Radiologist Shortage

Delayed diagnostic reports and growing backlogs represent more than an operational headache; they are a direct threat to patient outcomes and an imaging center’s financial health. As the national radiologist shortage intensifies, the pressure on imaging centers to maintain high-quality, timely care has reached a critical point.As a nurse who moved into product leadership, I...
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Inside the OBBBA, What Rural and Post-acute Care Organizations Need to Know

Inside the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: What Rural and Post-acute Care Organizations Need to Know

The information provided on this website and the resources available for download are for informational and educational purposes only. The content does not constitute legal or other professional advice. A lot of commentary has been written about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which was signed into law in 2025. As I’ve written about before,...
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Winning the Referral Race: How AI-Powered Intake Transforms Imaging Centers

For imaging centers and radiology groups, competition for referrals is more intense than ever. National quality measures, such as those outlined in the CMS “Closing the Referral Loop” (eCQM CMS50), highlight persistent gaps in referral communication and set explicit targets to ensure the referring clinician receives a specialist report.In this landscape, success depends not just...
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Lost in Transition: Addressing the Post-Acute Care Disconnect

When the continuity of patient records breaks down between a hospital and a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF), the consequences are severe: medical errors rise, readmission rates soar, and an already fragile system is strained by the hidden cost of uncompensated care. For patients, particularly those affected by a quickly evolving Medicare Advantage landscape, these transitions...
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Top 3 Takeaways from HLTH 2025

By now, it should go without saying that AI will be a dominant theme at any healthcare conference, and HLTH 2025 was no exception. On the first day of the conference, which drew more than 12,000 attendees, the chief physician executive of the American Hospital Association joked that his panel discussion had to hit a...
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What FedRAMP® Class D (High) Really Means for Federal Agencies

The pressure is on federal agencies to get more efficient, and agency leaders are feeling the squeeze. That’s where FedRAMP®-Certified solutions make a difference. Instead of spending months or even years running your own security assessments, your agency can select from solutions that are already vetted and approved.But not all FedRAMP cloud service offerings are...
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What Is FedRAMP and FedRAMP Compliance?

Cloud solutions like electronic faxing offer modern, digital workflows for federal agencies and their workers. But each time an agency implements a new solution, it must run security assessments to confirm the service meets the required standards. This process can take weeks or months.FedRAMP® certification simplifies this arduous task by providing a common framework and...
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Best Cloud Fax and Interoperability Provider? The Results Are In…

As organizations continue to grapple with shifting, increasingly urgent communication and data exchange needs, there are many options when onboarding a new solution. However, for leaders in healthcare and other regulated industries, the choice is clear. Consensus Cloud Solutions has over 30 years of experience delivering secure, industry-leading digital fax and interoperability solutions to thousands of...
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From Paper to Pixels: Can Fax Machines Coexist with Digital Tech?

:Business communication is rapidly transitioning towards digital formats, yet critical industries like healthcare, legal and government continue to rely on the security of faxing. As a result, the two worlds of traditional faxing and digital messaging are meeting in the middle through cloud faxing.Online faxing is set for massive growth, with the market projected to...
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