One hundred and eighty years after the first fax machines started grinding out messages, three NHS trusts in England are ...

Healthcare is a technologically sophisticated industry where robots are used to conduct surgery and telecommunications allow physicians to treat patients remotely from hundreds, if not thousands, of ...

Fax machines and servers may be old tech, but they're trusted. And, until someone comes up with a more secure and prolific method for transmitting patient information and prescription requests, the ...

While fax machines and pagers have nearly disappeared from every other industry, these technologies of yore are still prominent in healthcare — and they often leave millennials clueless, according to ...

Fax machines are still prominent enough in U.S. healthcare that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Seema Verma just this week challenged developers to create new tools that could help ...

Drug Mart Pharmacy, an independent drugstore in South Plainfield, New Jersey. Credit - Art Author, Public Domain (CC0 1.0) Drug Mart Pharmacy, an independent drugstore in South Plainfield, New Jersey.

In a brief break in Brexit shenanigans this week, the UK's Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock announced that he was to ban fax machines from the National Health Service (NHS) ...

On any given day, oncologist Mark Lewis, MD, feels like he's seesawing between two eras of technology. One minute, he's working on sequencing a tumor genome. The next, he's sifting through pages of ...

The world has moved past the era of floppy disks and dial-up tones. Now, it revolves around apps, encrypted emails, and real-time messaging. So, naturally, you'll peg the humble fax machine as one of ...

Communication is happening everywhere in healthcare—at every handoff and patient interaction, information is being exchanged. It's not surprising, then, that this leads to communication bottlenecks ...

When it comes to communication, it looks like the healthcare industry got stuck in a time warp. A new survey finds that healthcare organizations are still heavily reliant on 1970s technology, with 89% ...