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Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability

Updated on: August 27, 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 Data & Technology

Updated on: August 25, 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...

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...

Blog in Data & Technology

Updated on: August 18, 2026

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 in healthcare is fundamentally about real people. Patients whose medical histories, genetic information, and most vulnerable moments are captured...

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 Data & Technology

Updated on: August 19, 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...

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...

Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability

Updated on: August 27, 2026

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...

Blog in Data & Technology

Updated on: August 25, 2026

What’s the Difference Between an EHR and EMR? A Side-by-Side Comparison for Healthcare Professionals

Managing patient information is more complex than ever. Healthcare practices are dealing with more data, stricter rules and rising security risks tied to outdated software and manual processes. For many providers, moving to digital records isn’t just smart, it’s necessary to stay current and remain compliant in today’s increasingly cyber-connected world. Electronic medical records (EMRs)...

Blog in Healthcare & Interoperability

Updated on: August 27, 2026

What is an Electronic Health Record (EHR), and How Does It Work?

As the healthcare industry undergoes rapid digital transformation, many providers prioritize transitioning to electronic health records (EHRs) to streamline workflows, reduce human errors, improve data security and more. However, implementing EHR systems isn’t without its challenges. You’re not alone if you know you must take the plunge but aren’t sure what features to look for or how...

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