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Using Email for Online Faxing? It Must Be HIPAA-Compliant

September 30, 2019

Many businesses use email and more recent forms of communication wherever they can, but there are still a number of use cases where organizations rely on the humble fax machine. These include legal discovery, sending medical records and a range of situations where a paper trail is important. In certain circumstances, faxing can be an […]

Is FAXing really HIPAA Compliant?

September 12, 2017

Many organizations, especially in the healthcare industry, have an urgent need to send important and sensitive information, like protected health information (what constitutes PHI?), to organizations via FAX (facsimile). Why? Because this is how it has always been done, and everyone is “set up” to be able to handle FAXes quickly and efficiently. Go back […]