Beth Israel Lahey Health said modernizing its fax infrastructure during a major Epic EHR consolidation helped the health system slash fax failure rates from 34% to 4% and save $4 million. By adopting Retarus’ cloud-based platform, the health system simplified referrals and prescription processing, as well as reduced manual administrative work.
Rural health organizations cannot afford to get dazzled by AI demo candy. There is no such thing as “FixHealthcareGPT,” and investing in the wrong technology for the future isn’t going to do anything to improve patient outcomes today.
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The key to realizing the full potential of legacy systems in modern healthcare lies in overcoming interoperability challenges — ensuring seamless data exchange between various systems while preserving the trusted reliability and security healthcare providers depend on.
The disdain for fax in all its forms isn’t new. But at a time when small healthcare organizations struggle to afford an EHR, the question remains: Who are the digital haves to judge the digital have-nots?
The suit claims that the stress of knowing his coworkers could know about his HIV status caused the man to quit his job and lose his health insurance benefits.
Few industries still rely on fax technology the way healthcare does, and advocates for greater transparency in healthcare on both sides of the Atlantic can't wait for that to change.
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.