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Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability

Updated on: May 5, 2026

SNFs Are the Blind Spot in Healthcare Interoperability

A 78-year-old Medicare patient is discharged from the hospital to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) after hip surgery. The hospital’s electronic health record (EHR) system contains detailed notes about her new medication regimen, her mobility restrictions, and a pending cardiac consultation. But when she arrives at the SNF two hours later, her care team receives a...

Blog in Thought Leadership

Updated on: May 5, 2026

Innovating Around AI: The Shift Towards Integration and Real-World Impact

Artificial intelligence (AI) emerged as the star of the show at HIMSS earlier this year. It was impossible to ignore the influence of AI on every emerging tool and solution touted at the show as HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf jokingly challenged attendees to find 10 booths on the exhibit floor that didn’t mention AI. The dialogue...

Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability

Updated on: May 5, 2026

How to Close Care Coordination Gaps With Interoperable Cloud Faxing

Upon a patient’s discharge from a hospital, the care team faxed a 40-page transition-of-care document to the patient’s cardiologist. But the fax sat in a bin inside the cardiologist’s office for three days before being manually entered into the provider’s electronic health record (EHR). During that time, no one realized that the patient had been...

Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability

Updated on: April 1, 2026

Choosing the Right EMR Software: A Buyer’s Guide for Healthcare Practices

Selecting the right electronic medical records (EMR) software can seem daunting for healthcare practice leaders. The solution must be easy to use. It has to keep patient data secure. Most importantly, it must help everyone in your practice — providers, registrars, coders, and billers — do their jobs faster with reliable and accurate data. Where to...

Blog in Thought Leadership

Updated on: May 5, 2026

5 Keys to Digital Transformation in Healthcare

Hospitals and health systems “cannot function today without embracing digital health transformation at some level,” a HIMSS analysis states. The road to digital value varies: Every healthcare organization’s digital transformation journey takes a different path, depending on their starting point, their end goals, and the resources they have available along the way. Yet despite the many...

Blog in Data & Technology

Updated on: December 16, 2025

Best Practices for Data Governance in Healthcare

“Data governance” feels like a buzzword. You can imagine a boardroom full of executives nodding sagely while PowerPoint slides flash by, filled with abstract concepts and compliance checkboxes. But strip away the jargon, and data governance is fundamentally about real people. Patients whose medical histories, genetic information, and most vulnerable moments are captured in databases and...

Blog in Customers & Business

Updated on: December 15, 2025

Fax Quality: Common Failures, Hidden Costs, and Quick Fixes

When you use faxing to transmit important information, like documents and images, the quality of that fax is of utmost importance. How is fax quality measured? It comes down to fax resolution, which is measured in pixels per inch (ppi). The higher the pixels per inch, the better quality the image or document, and the easier it is to...

Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability

Updated on: April 14, 2026

Unstructured No More: How AI-Powered Data Extraction is Transforming Healthcare

Alice arrives at Bonobo Healthcare, where Dr. Carol needs her medical history from a local clinic. They fax it over. Dr. Carol must do what doctors, nurses, and clinicians do every day: read through these notes and manually enter them into the EHR system before beginning treatment.This scenario highlights a critical healthcare problem: clinical staff waste...

Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability

Updated on: May 5, 2026

EHR Interoperability in Healthcare: Achieving Seamless Data Exchange

When your healthcare organization can exchange data seamlessly with other providers, quality of care improves, and provider burdens lessen. So, why are just 43% of hospitals routinely engaging in interoperable data exchange right now?Electronic health record (EHR) interoperability has stalled — not due to a lack of standards, but because organizations still rely on fragmented,...

Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability

Updated on: July 15, 2025

Insights from athenahealth: Enhancing Healthcare Communication with Integrated Cloud Fax Capabilities

Even as patient records have been digitized and communication systems have evolved, the healthcare industry still depends on fax to send and receive vital information. Recent data suggests 46% of healthcare facilities still rely on paper fax to exchange information with other providers in the absence of an EHR, according to a survey facilitated by...

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