@GrumpusNation@mastodon.social
2025-11-22 15:44 UTC
@flargh@mastodon.social @davidbcohen@twit.social It ain’t just America, either: it’s critical for Canadian doctors, for a lot of the same reasons: fax is incredibly useful and convenient *in some situations*: it’s a open protocol, high fidelity to an original, and prescriptions can be sent to any pharmacy pretty reliably.
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@GrumpusNation@mastodon.social 2025-11-22 15:45
@flargh @davidbcohen (I work for a [slowly modernizing] health care-adjacent org, and when asked to add “Fax” to a web form, kind of yelped, too, until I started talking to doctors.)
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@davidbcohen@twit.social 2025-11-22 16:28
@GrumpusNation @flargh If only there were other ways of sending patient data securely? We have secure patient record and prescription data interchange between systems (both NHS and Private) in the UK, and most other developed countries in the world do too. Without fax (which is effectively teleporting *paper notes* over the slowest eavesdroppable comms line possible). We got rid of paper in our justice system too. It’s sweet to think fax forms part of any best practice in 2025 😉