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Faxing in the Cloud: The Role of Cloud Faxing in Healthcare Interoperability

Despite advancements in APIs and EHR integrations, gaps remain in the seamless exchange of patient data across disparate systems. Cloud faxing bridges these gaps by providing...

Secure Faxing Beyond Healthcare: HIPAA Solutions in Law & Finance

Explore how HIPAA-compliant faxing benefits the legal and financial sectors, providing secure, compliant solutions for handling sensitive client data.

HIPAA Faxing: Build Patient Trust with Transparency and Confidence

Discover how HIPAA-compliant faxing builds patient trust by enhancing data security, transparency, and confidence in healthcare communication.

How to Fax Without a Fax Machine: Staying HIPAA Compliant

Traditional fax machines are increasingly outdated and inconvenient, yet there's still a need for faxing in industries like healthcare where HIPAA compliance is critical.

Journey of Faxing: From a Distant Idea to Modern Staple

When we think of faxing today, it probably conjures up images of clunky machines, loud dial tones, and a seemingly endless parade of papers. But what if I told you that faxing wasn't just a product of the '80s office boom?

Simplifying High-Volume Workflows with Secure Cloud Fax Service

In industries like healthcare and legal services, managing high volumes of documents is essential but often cumbersome. Manual faxing processes can result in inefficiencies, delays, and errors.

Evolution of Fax: From Analog Risks to Cloud-Based Protection

Faxing has been a vital communication tool for decades, especially in industries like healthcare, law, and finance, where sensitive information must be transmitted securely.

The Role of Cloud Faxing in Healthcare Hybrid Work Models

As healthcare organizations increasingly adopt hybrid work models, professionals are navigating the challenges of working both on-site and remotely. This shift brings the need for secure communication, seamless document management, and compliance with regulations like HIPAA.

The Role of Cloud Fax in Disaster Recovery Planning

In today’s unpredictable world, businesses must be prepared for various potential disruptions, from natural disasters to cyberattacks. While many organizations focus on backing up their data and ensuring their IT infrastructure is resilient, communication systems often receive less attention.

Going Green in Healthcare: How Cloud Faxing Supports Sustainability

Sustainability is more important than ever, especially in resource-intensive industries like healthcare. While traditional faxing is still common, it comes with significant environmental costs.

Utilizing HIPAA-Compliant Cloud Fax for Interdepartmental Communication in Healthcare

Interdepartmental communication in healthcare is crucial for timely and accurate information sharing. This article discusses how HIPAA-compliant cloud fax solutions enhance security, improve the speed and quality of information transfer, and enable simultaneous faxing.

Privacy Concerns with AI & Medical Records

Our latest article explores data security risks, informed consent, anonymization challenges, data ownership issues, regulatory hurdles, and the need for transparency in AI decision-making.

Getting Started with HIPAA-Compliant Cloud Fax Service

Get started with our HIPAA-compliant cloud fax service by selecting a plan that suits your needs. With features like print-to-fax, MFP integration, EPIC EHR integration, and a comprehensive fax API, our service ensures secure, efficient, and seamless faxing for your organization.

Future-Proofing Your Healthcare Practice with HIPAA-Compliant Cloud Fax Technology

HIPAA-compliant cloud fax technology offers a future-proof solution for healthcare practices, ensuring seamless communication and robust data protection. It discusses the need for modernization, benefits such as enhanced security and compliance, and the ability to integrate with emerging technologies and support scalability.

How Does HIPAA-Compliant Cloud Fax Differ from Fax Machines?

Explore the key differences between traditional fax machines and HIPAA-compliant cloud fax solutions, and discover how upgrading can enhance security and efficiency in your healthcare practice.

Enhancing Security in Healthcare Workflows with Cloud Fax Service

Cloud faxing has revolutionized the way healthcare providers manage the transfer of sensitive information, offering enhanced security and compliance with privacy laws. Discover the benefits of integrating cloud fax services into healthcare workflows to improve efficiency and reduce costs.

Ensuring Your Faxes Are HIPAA-Compliant

Learn how to ensure your faxes are HIPAA-compliant by using a reliable online fax service, including essential practices like using cover pages with disclaimers and verifying recipient information. Stay secure and compliant with these tips.

How to setup and Use the WestFax Print to Fax Driver

Here's a guide on how to set up the WestFax Print to Fax Driver, making it easy for any Windows desktop user to send faxes directly from programs that have printing capabilities.

How to enable 2FA on your WestFax account

Here is our guide to enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on your WestFax account to add an extra layer of security to your communications. This article delves into the setup of 2FA, emphasizing its significance in protecting your data.

How to Setup Internet Faxing on Ricoh MFP Copiers

In this guide, we will walk you through setting up your Ricoh MFP to send faxes without an extra app or complicated setup. You just hit the Fax button, type in the number and the scanned document will be sent.

The Easiest Way to Resend a Fax That Failed

Recognizing the need for flexibility and efficiency in document transmission, we have introduced a new feature in our home portal: the ability to easily resend faxes.

How to Send and Receive Faxes on Android Devices

Our Android app is crafted to turn your smartphone into a portable fax device, allowing you to effortlessly send and receive faxes straight from your Android device.

Streamline Your Tax Process: The Role of Faxing in IRS Submissions

Within a world of global conflict, cybersecurity threats loom large, the security of sensitive information is paramount, particularly during tax season. Faxing, often perceived as "old technology", holds a unique advantage in this regard.

2024 HIPAA Updates - Advancing Patient Data Protection

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) continues to evolve, reflecting the commitment to uphold patient data privacy within the burgeoning landscape of digital health services.

WestFax's Advanced MFP Fax Integration

Discover the seamless integration of WestFax's advanced MFP fax service, offering a secure, compliant, and efficient solution for all your business communication needs.

How to Send and Receive Faxes on an iPhone

Our iPhone app is designed to transform your smartphone into a handheld fax machine, enabling you to send and receive faxes with ease, directly from your iPhone.

What is the Best Online Fax Service HIPAA-Compliant

Learn about the key factors that define a top-tier HIPAA-compliant online fax service, designed to ensure secure and efficient patient communication for healthcare professionals.

Three Ways to Fax Enable Your MFP

Modernizing Fax in the Digital Age: Learn how MFPs seamlessly integrate with advanced faxing solutions, enhancing communication efficiency and security.

How to setup Allowed Senders for Email to Fax

Setting up Allowed Senders for Email to Fax is the first step to allow your users or MFPs to send faxes through WestFax. It's quick and easy to add one or more users to one or more fax lines.

How Long Does It Take to Send a Fax Online?

Online faxing transmits documents efficiently, with transmission times influenced by internet speed, document size, and the recipient's equipment. Users should account for potential delays, particularly if recipients use outdated machinery.

The Rise of Online Cloud Faxing and its Role in HIPAA Compliance

In the digital age of 2023, while many traditional technologies have faded into obscurity, faxing has not only survived but thrived, thanks to its evolution into online cloud faxing.

The History of Toll-Free Numbers

The history of toll-free numbers dates back to the mid-20th century. In the United States, the concept of toll-free calling was first introduced in the 1960s.

New Options for WestFax Email Receipts

Feedback reports are emails you receive after sending a fax from an email. In the past, you could only choose "Yes" to get a receipt or "No" to suppress receipts.

2023 HIPAA Rule Changes - Are you Compliant?

The article outlines the 2023 HIPAA changes and the importance of secure fax technology in maintaining compliance and protecting patient data.

PCI Compliance and How Does It Apply to Fax?

Sending or receiving credit card information using fax technology one must ensure that they have proper security measures in place to protect against data breaches and ensure PCI compliance.

ChatGPT and HIPAA compliance.

In the United States, where healthcare providers are subject to HIPAA Privacy Rule, the use of ChatGPT with protected health information could lead to stiff penalties.

How to Stay HIPAA Compliant with Remote Workers

Remote working is great but if employees use their personal computers or mobile devices to send, receive, or view protected health information (PHI), they could be at risk of a violation

Is Dropbox HIPAA Compliant?

Dropbox is a popular service for storing and sharing files. Covered entities that are subject to HIPAA should approach Dropbox with caution, though, just as they would with any other technology platform.

Everything you Need to Know About HIPAA Compliant Faxing

In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the “why and how” of HIPAA compliant faxing.

Everything You Need to Know About BAA

If your organization is a "covered entity" subject to HIPAA's Privacy Rule, it's important that you understand what a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) is and why it's necessary to protect you from liability.

Can you share HIPAA information over text?

Is text messaging HIPAA compliant? The general answer is "no", although there are a few scenarios in which limited communication via SMS text messages may be acceptable. Nevertheless, it's not advisable.

7 ways to be HIPAA Compliant with your MFP

This article will address the key steps required to ensure that you are using your MFP in a manner that fully complies with the HIPAA Privacy Rule

5 Ways HIPAA Compliance Makes You More Secure

For healthcare providers, insurance companies, and other entities subject to HIPAA, the security of patients protected health information (PHI) is especially important. By maintaining HIPAA compliance, covered entities are inevitably held to a very high standard for cybersecurity.

Is Office365 HIPAA Compliant

Microsoft Office 365 may be HIPAA compliant under certain circumstances, covered entities must be extremely careful, taking proactive measures in order to ensure they do not unintentionally violate HIPA nos Privacy Rule

Is Email HIPAA Compliant?

Although it's possible to take steps that make e-mail more secure, there are always some risks involved. Even encrypted e-mails might not always pass muster. If your organization plans to use e-mail to send protected health information (PHI), it's important to consider the risks very carefully.

How to Flatten a fillable Adobe PDF file

Flattening a PDF is not hard and can save you a lot of time if you are sending that PDF to another party. Failure to flatten a PDF can result in a loss of data and a lot of fustration.

Is Gmail's Confidential Mode HIPAA Compliant?

Let's take a closer look at Gmail's confidential mode and compare it to tried and true secure cloud fax service alternatives.

How to set up PaperCut to auto print faxes

Get your inbound faxing under control with PaperCut. Enable Email to Print to auto print faxes on the WestFax Hipaa cloud fax platform. PaperCut and WestFax together for the win!

Where is Area Code 844?

Area code 844 is a toll-free area code not associated with any specific North American city, region, or state. This means that calls to 844 numbers are free for callers in the United States, Canada, and over a dozen other countries and territories. WestFax provides toll-free 844 numbers for their HIPAA Compliant Fax plans.

Fax Cover Sheets for Medical offices, Businesses, Professionals & More

Organizations that process ePHI or Electronic Personal Health Information are required by law to protect patient data. If your organization is not using a Secure Cloud Fax solution you risk hefty fines for violating HIPAA and exposing Personal Health Information

Higher security and reliability with cloud-based fax solutions.

A whopping 5% of traditional on-premise fax transmissions fail to reach their intended destination. With reliable and deliverable communication being at the center of quality patient care, how can this staggering number be reduced?

The End of the Line for Copper Phone Lines

The age of the plain old telephone service (POTS) and ISDN will officially come to an end in August of this year. Now is the time to get your Fax moved to the cloud!

How to send a Fax from your Multi-Function Printer

Modern cloud fax services offer substantially greater flexibility than standalone fax machines or multi-function printer/copiers (MFPs) connected to a dedicated phone line. But did you know that you can still use your MFP to send faxes, even with a cloud fax service?

Why does my fax fail?

Faxes can fail. Sometimes it's for obvious reasons such as busy signals or disconnected fax number but there are other reasons a fax may fail and we'll go into why some fax services are not the same as others.

The Hidden Cost of an on-premise fax server

For healthcare organizations, legal firms, and others that routinely rely on fax to exchange information securely, the do-it-yourself approach can be extraordinarily expensive. Learn how Cloud Fax can save you time and money today.

How to use WestFax with GFI Faxmaker Print Driver.

So your organization has GFI Faxmaker and uses the Print Driver to send faxes. You want to move to WestFax for our stability, deliverability and pricing. You aren't the first. Here we'll show you how easy it is to transition to WestFax from GFI faxmaker with no downtime.

Fax and the Sunken Cost Fallacy

Many organizations will stick with a failing project because they spent a fortune implementing it. Below I discuss a customer who resisted change because of the 'Sunk Cost fallacy' that correcting course would cost more when in reality they can save money and eventually recover some of those losses.

How to setup internet faxing on Xerox MFP copiers

Xerox MFP's are easy to convert to digital cloud fax. Get your Xerox MFP setup to send fax with no fax line. Start faxing without the hard line today!

How to setup internet faxing on Lexmark MFP copiers

Have a Lexmark MFP or copier? Lose the fax line and get digital today. Get your Lexmark MFP setup to send fax with no fax line. Cloud fax has never been so easy!

Is Area Code 844 Toll-Free?

"Want to know if 844 numbers are toll-free or not? Find out here! We also discuss other toll-free area codes such as 888,877,855,855, and 833

How to setup internet faxing on Toshiba MFP copiers

Get your Toshiba MFP's setup today. Getting your fax on digital is easy. Lose the hard line and setup Toshiba with WestFax Cloud fax today!

How to setup internet faxing on HP MFP copiers

No more hard fax lines needed. Get your HP MFP setup to send fax with no fax line. It only takes minutes to get setup.

WestFax API Call breakdown: Fax_SendFax

We breakdown the parameters needed for Fax_SendFax and let you know how to get started fast with our HIPAA Compliant Fax API

Here is why HIPAA Compliant fax technology will remain important in healthcare.

Being secure, fax enables protection of patients’ privacy and complies with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). However, HIPAA compliance requires several conditions to be met.

Cloud Fax use in the legal industry. Why Fax is still the most secure option.

The internet and email affected all sorts of communication till then and turned it all into obsolete technology, but fax service miraculously survived. Though not as popular as it was in the 1980s, the fax technology is still a favorite mode of communication in many fields in the US, especially among the lawyer community.

How Cloud Fax Replacing Fax Servers

Modernized fax services offer a web interface, which has different quality of utility depending on the software and functionality. The process of sending a fax via email is substantially straightforward and doesn’t vary much from service to service. Sending a fax over the Internet typically involves simply typing in a telephone number.

Who is still using fax machines?

Fax technology has been around since the 19th century though its use began to peak in the 1980s and 1990s. Even the email came nearly 100 years after the first facsimile device. Who is still using old school fax machines when there are so many faster fax options?

How OCR data extraction from documents is crucial in many workflows

Digitization of work and increasing automation show what the current pace of technological growth means for the future of work. Let’s look at how extracting data from documents is key for many workflows.

Local Fax Services Near Me

We provide fast, reliable, and affordable fax services near you. No matter what type of document you are sending or receiving, we willl help you send it quickly and easily.

Advantages and disadvantages of OCR over human data entry

Manual data entry has always been tedious and error-prone. With the introduction of smart software solutions like Optical Character Recognition (OCR), which electronically converts text into data, you can efficiently concentrate on strategic decisions and tasks.

Best Practices: HIPAA Procedure and Policy Templates

A Healthcare or Provider that deals with PHI (Protected Health Information) must comply with HIPAA. However, compliance is not easy. A HIPAA procedure and policy template is a simple utility for your organization to get on the same page.

What are the Duties of a HIPAA Compliance Officer?

What exactly does a HIPAA Compliance Officer do? Here is a list of the primary responsibilities that person must perform to ensure their organization is HIPAA Compliant.

5 Tips for HIPAA Compliant Faxes

It is important to follow some best practices whenever you are sending or receiving PHI via fax. Here is a list of five key practices that will help you and your organization remain fully compliant with the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

Fax Cover Sheet Examples

In order to send a fax, you must first create a fax cover sheet. Learn how to do so here!

What is GLBA and How Does it Apply to Faxing?

The Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA), also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, requires financial institutions, – including many organizations that aren't traditionally viewed as such, – to explain their information-sharing practices to their customers and to safeguard sensitive data.

You will need to get the ProductId which is the unique identifier for your fax line. Each fax line has a different unique GUID (or Hashed ID) which allows you to send / receive and manage your faxes individually.

There are a number of misconceptions about the HIPAA privacy rule, though. That can sometimes lead to situations in which information is withheld unnecessarily (or even illegally), or barriers to the delivery of quality care to patients.

When most people hear HIPAA, they immediately think of the privacy of their personal health information. In legal parlance, this is referred to as protected health information (PHI) or electronic protected health information (ePHI). There are some common misconceptions as to what exactly HIPAA does or does not protect, though.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued special guidance with respect to the sharing of information about patients, including people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

As we celebrate Earth Day, its worth spending a few minutes to think about some of the small steps we can all take to make a difference in the health of our planet. If you operate a business, non-profit, or healthcare organization, theres one very important thing you can do that will help you achieve your sustainability goals: that is, to reduce your paper consumption.

The HIPAA Privacy Rule was developed shortly after the law was initially passed, and it has evolved over the years to adapt to changes in technology and in the healthcare system itself. What new developments should covered entities be aware of? Here are some key highlights from the first few months of 2021.

We all recognize that patient privacy is important, but in many cases HIPAA violations simply occur when healthcare providers often overlook some of the gaps in the processes and tools they use to manage patient information. Here are some tips for making sure your medical office is doing everything possible to remain HIPAA compliant.

If you use Email to Fax you may have received an Email failed SPF validation message. You may be scratching your head wondering what this is about. Not to worry! The issue is quickly solvable and a good idea to boot. First, we will explain what SPF is and why it is important you have it setup, and we will also offer some technical information that will help your IT staff get it done quickly and easily.

The idea of porting over a fax number can seem daunting. Everything has to be perfect and if you mess it up it will get rejected for some reason. While it can be a pain, the reasons that a port request fails is actually pretty limited and avoidable. Here are eight reasons that a port request may fail.

The Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 is widely known as one of our country's most important privacy protection laws. HIPAAs privacy protections are covered under the HIPAA Privacy Rule. So which information does HIPAA protect, exactly?

Great news! Last month, as you may or may not know we rolled out built in cover pages into the Print Driver and the Fax Console. Now we have integrated cover pages into Email to Fax. Now, adding a cover page is as simple as adding a little piece of text into your email subject.

It’s easy to get lost in some of the three and four-letter acronyms that surround the world of business fax, healthcare fax, and telephony. Terms like Caller ID, CNAM, and CSID are sometimes used interchangeably, even though there are some very important distinctions. Others, such as DNIS and DID, are also important to understand. Here’s a brief guide to some of the essential terms that come up when we are talking about fax.

Twilio Programmable Fax is set to sunset in December 2021. We will show you how to get your fax api converted from twilio to Westfax. In this how-to we will show you how to send a fax via the WestFax HIPAA Compliant fax api in 15 minutes or less.

Fax technology continues to play a critically important role in healthcare, financial services and government institutions. It has come a long way since the early days of dedicated phone lines and thermal fax paper, though. Medical providers, in particular, rely heavily on the security and reliability of electronic fax to stay in compliance with HIPAA. In most small offices and home offices, fax can still play an important role, especially where security is a high priority.

WestFax provides multiple ways of sending a fax, making the process simple and painless. Most don’t even require you to walk away from your computer. One popular method is to use the WestFax Print To Fax driver. It’s a small program that installs on your computer and emulates a Windows printer. Once you have installed it, sending a fax is as easy as printing a document.

Faxing is still a key component to interoperability. This trusted and reliable medium has served healthcare well for decades and continues to perform where other platforms struggle with standards and adoption.

It’s good practice to include a confidentiality statement as part of a cover page for any fax that may include sensitive information. Here are some guidelines for putting together a good fax confidentiality statement.

If you are a healthcare provider, insurance company, or other entity covered under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, you may have heard of something called a Business Associate Agreement (BAA). The BAA is a critical part of making sure that you are meeting HIPAA requirements; and if you don’t have a BAA in place, it could end up costing you a lot of money.

Sending protected health information in electronic format (ePHI) by fax is permitted within HIPAA, provided that appropriate measures be taken to guard against unauthorized access to that information. So what exactly are appropriate measures? We'll go into detail and discuss what a HIPAA Compliant fax service is.

Much of the information that is shared between hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and other healthcare entities is sent using fax. After all, fax is highly secure, flexible, and easy to use. For organizations that are sending and receiving Protected Health Information (PHI) and other confidential data, however, special precautions need to be taken, especially with regard to the use of mobile devices.

As we enter into the 2020 election season, it’s important to keep in mind that our system of government is designed to be responsive to the needs of its citizens. Your national, state, and local representatives need to hear from you.

These claims can only be submitted using traditional paper-based forms; there is no electronic filing option available. To speed up your refund, the IRS is highly recommending that claim forms be sent via fax. If you want a clear paper trail to provide backup showing exactly what you sent and when you sent it, then electronic fax is by far the best option.

If you are one of the vast majority of small and mid-sized businesses that received a loan from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), you will probably be submitting a PPP Loan Forgiveness Application sometime in the near future. With tens of thousands of dollars (or potentially millions) at stake, using WestFax for your PPP Loan Forgiveness Application is a smart move.

Banks, healthcare, and government offices continue to use fax routinely. Nearly every member of Congress has an inbound fax number. A foundational rule of marketing says that you should make it easy for customers to communicate with you; so it only makes sense to add electronic fax to your business communication toolbox.
We'll show you how to send a fax four ways.

Sending a fax is easy as you may have already discovered, but what about retrieving a fax document for an inbound fax?In this article we’ll detail the process for converting your inbound faxes into actual documents.

You are paying for a dedicated phone line, fax machine upkeep and the paper and ink supplies. But you want to keep your fax number, and the process (you think) is a pain. Just know that it isn’t hard at all and here is how to do it quickly and easily. There is no better time to go to Digital Cloud Fax.

From its analog origins in the sixties to the infinitely scalable Digital Cloud Fax platforms today that can send/receive/process and manage millions of faxes; Fax has never been as robust and powerful. The future of Fax and its role in healthcare has been a topic of much discussion but with the vision of an all-digital healthcare system still evolving, fax is seeing its architecture evolve to meet the challenges of complete interoperability.

Unless you are deep diving into the SDK you may miss some of the enum values that are useful for implementing the API. What are Enums? Basically they are a list of values that can be used as an input value for a web service or they are presented as output values. What does that help with? It allows you to have some control over the flow. We’ll look at the most frequently used API calls and break down the values allowed.

I recently had a routine medical checkup and as I was signing in I always look over to see if they have an old fax machine sitting somewhere. At some point a medical assistant asked one of the ladies at the desk if the fax needed a cover sheet. The woman at the desk quickly assured her that all faxes get coversheets no matter what. "All Faxes get cover sheets! No exceptions…ever!". It's good to see my Doctors office take HIPAA so seriously.

HIPAA violations occur everyday. The best way to avoid HIPAA violations is for them not to occur in the first place. HIPAA laws are complex and they are subject to continuous change. The best defense is a good offense and in today’s medical environment there are no excuses for untrained personnel and careless mistakes.

Every entrepreneur from the guy fixing cars out of his garage to someone running a consultancy knows that time is the #1 problem. Not enough time to get everything done. We cut corners, sacrifice effectiveness and in the end we hurt our business. These are some less common and not usually hit upon ways to increase productivity and maximize your time on the important work of executing your business priorities.

So Let’s talk about HIPAA fax cover pages. Do you really need to include a cover sheet? The short and only answer is YES. When handling sensitive medical information there is no wiggle room with regards to HIPAA safeguards. There are no guidelines on what a cover sheet should contain if transmitting HIPAA protected information however most agree that the following safeguards should be employed.

You have your enterprise application coded but you need to be able to send faxes occasionally. Sure, you could just generate a PDF, Print it off and then fax it. But with just a few lines of code you can integrate faxing into your application.

So the old fax machine finally bit the dust. What to do now? Do you run to the store to buy a replacement or maybe this is a great time to go digital finally. Going digital isn't as hard as you think.

Maybe your old fax machine died or you are tired of dealing with stacks of old faxes that you have to shred every month and you wish there was a better way. Online faxing isn't new but if you are still using your old fax machine then now is the best time to convert to online faxing.

If you have worked in an office that utilizes faxes we all have that love / hate with our fax machines. Whether it is a trusty old machine that never fails or some fancy copier integrated fax that, despite it being brand new, still suffers failures and odd error codes and at times you want to bash it to pieces out in the parking lot.

We are a mobile addicted population and we have no intent on trying to change that habit but we do have some ideas to optimize your use of the portable computer you carry around with you all day.

The fax machine as an office appliance is outdated, insecure and a complete waste of time and money. How can you be sure that patient records are secure? Is someone monitoring the fax machine 24/7? Fax is still the best way to securely transfer patient records, but not with a traditional fax machine. Smart medical offices managers are making the switch to cloud based fax solutions and it’s easier than you may think.

Traveling the world and working remotely is a new hot trend. Whether your destination is stateside or at an exotic location you will find that living remotely can pose an interesting set of challenges. There are plenty of websites dedicated to digital nomadism but here are 5 easy ways to keep things running smoothly.

More and more businesses are going green. In the early days of the eco-friendly movement businesses would spend more money to buy recycled paper and materials with the expectations that consumers would utilize their services or products over non-green competitors.

As a society we still go through too much paper. Even in this digital age we are still inundated with paperwork and documents daily. In contrast faxing has actually led the way in reducing paper waste with more usage of Fax to Email and online digital fax solutions.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a United States legislation, signed in 1996. The goal of HIPAA was to standardize the electronic transmission of medical transactions. HIPAA also helps to protect against fraud, wasted health insurance and healthcare, and abuse. It also makes it easier to acquire long-term care and insurance.

The Freedom of Information Act is a federal statute passed in 1966 that allows ordinary citizens in the United States to access documents and information held by the government. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is making some much needed changes to the way FOIA requests are submitted starting March 1st in order to deal with these requests via a more secure method. The FBI is now completely abandoning e-mail requests in favor of good old secure fax.

In 2014 WestFax celebrated the 50th anniversary of the fax machine. In 1964 at the height of the British pop invasion while America was still reeling from the Kennedy assassination, Xerox invented the modern office fax machine. While this office equipment staple has lost much respect over the past several years, it still remains essential to most businesses. Particularly businesses that require secure document transport to maintain HIPAA compliance. Marketing departments in every industry are also rediscovering the power of fax advertising to avoid spam filters and present a unified communication approach to reinforce their digital marketing efforts.

The origin of the "Fax" machine has it’s roots much earlier than the more widely accepted invention of the fax by Xerox corporation in 1964. If you want to look back into history over the mechanism for reproduction of a printed object over long distance you have to look back to Scottish inventor Alexander Bain, who worked on chemical mechanical fax type devices and in 1846 was able to reproduce graphic signs.