Fax equipment seems to get more and more complex. I was looking at these articles from Yahoo.com when doing a search on fax broadcasting equipment.

Digital Faxing from Samsung seems to get more and more automated.

I found this article: Feeling overwhelmed by faxes

I love that new terminology: Fax-o-rrhea.. Hilarious.

When our practice's fax machine, once a symbol of office efficiency, recently turned into a practice-choking monster, we had to act. What started as a trickle of patient-specific faxes had expanded over the years into a flood of paper.

To fight the resulting administrative condition, which I diagnosed as "fax-o-rrhea," our office used a mix of 21st century technology and old-fashioned diplomacy. It's a solution that could work for your practice, too.

Too much information

Our office, Skyline Family Practice, opened in 1994 with an integrated electronic health record (EHR), scheduling program and medical billing program. Our telephone system and our facsimile machine were vital pieces of business equipment. However, the amount of incoming fax traffic and the necessary outbound faxes had escalated exponentially over the years.

To get a handle on who was sending us so many faxes, we mentally sorted them into two categories: medically related faxes and unsolicited junk. Medically related faxes were being sent to us by insurance carriers, pharmacy mail-order companies, nursing homes, hospitals, home health agencies and other doctors' offices. The junk messages were being served up by stockbrokers with tips see: Junk Fax Investment Fraud , restaurants with specials, salesmen with real estate offers and the like.

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