> It's the lack of a universal API.
This sort of thing is exactly why the healthcare industry still uses faxes, even going electronic charts -> pdf -> fax -> pdf -> electronic charts in some cases.
This sort of thing is exactly why the healthcare industry still uses faxes, even going electronic charts -> pdf -> fax -> pdf -> electronic charts in some cases.
electronic charts -> pdf -> fax -> fax machine as a service -> unsecured email -> pdf -> electronic charts
Compliance can sometimes help, but ultimately the data needs to flow, and people will do whatever it takes to make that happen. Until security is so easy that it's the default, these little loopholes will continue to be abused.
>> Until security is so easy that it's the default, these little loopholes will continue to be abused.
The simple way to think about this is that the government is more worried about unsecure email/email spoofing than it is about wiretapping.
I can, however, point you to the relevant section of HIPAA regulations on which it rests, the definition of “electronic media” at 45 CFR § 160.103, specifically this bit: “Certain transmissions, including of paper, via facsimile, and of voice, via telephone, are not considered to be transmissions via electronic media if the information being exchanged did not exist in electronic form immediately before the transmission.”
So you need to print them out before faxing? PDF->Fax wouldn't work with that definition.