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Fax technology is often criticized as a symbol of health care’s slow digital transformation. Yet many providers still rely on fax to exchange clinical information across disparate systems. As interoperability requirements expand through federal policy and industry initiatives, some experts argue that modernizing fax rather than eliminating it may offer a practical bridge toward fully...

LOS ANGELES – December 2, 2025 – Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: CCSI), a global leader of digital cloud fax technology and trusted provider of interoperability solutions, has been named a Top Healthcare Technology Company by The Healthcare Technology Report for the second year in a row. Consensus ranked #22 overall and #8 in the Healthcare Software category...

Despite major advances in healthcare technology, significant disparities remain—especially with behavioral and mental health providers that didn’t qualify for federal health IT initiatives under HITECH funding. Many of these providers reside in underserved markets or outside the Integrated Delivery Networks. Without access to the same sophisticated EHRs and standardized data-sharing frameworks that larger health systems...

Despite major advances in healthcare technology, significant disparities remain—especially with behavioral and mental health providers that didn’t qualify for federal health IT initiatives under HITECH funding. Many of these providers reside in underserved markets or outside the Integrated Delivery Networks. Without access to the same sophisticated EHRs and standardized data-sharing frameworks that larger health systems...

As CEO, you’re always the last one to know. I touched on this earlier, but people really don’t want to bring the CEO bad news. I’ve had several instances where someone has come to me and said, “well, we were having this problem, so we solved it.” It’s great that it’s solved, but I have questions....

It’s no secret the healthcare industry hates fax—which many healthcare participants still equate solely with old-school paper fax—but few information sharing technologies can match cloud-based digital fax for its security, speed and ease of use. While other industries have moved on to less secure email and messaging platforms, fax still reigns supreme in healthcare. In...

Amid Medicare Advantage’s rise, future policy shifts – including faster prior authorization requirements and Medicaid cuts – could increase nursing homes’ challenges with uncompensated care and care transitions.

Healthcare IT teams will feel a bigger push to modernize their IT infrastructure in the cloud given the need to manage rising volumes of data and strengthen information exchange, leading analysts believe. At one Georgia health system, the move to the cloud stabilized operations after a supercharged path to growth. It also set the stage...

One of the most daunting quandaries in healthcare is managing the abundance of data that are generated every day. The challenge isn’t just the vast volume of information, but the fact that most data are unstructured. Unstructured data require a considerable amount of manual intervention to read the contents and determine where the information needs...