The Evolution of Fax Technology: Enabling Secure, Health-Critical Communications via the Cloud

Apr 25, 2017

Our CEO, Paul Banco, discusses the evolution of fax technology on Becker’s Health IT & CEO Review. Read about how HIPAA compliant fax services enable existing fax solutions to leverage the cloud.

“Despite mobile and cloud technologies becoming more prevalent within healthcare organizations, fax is still one of the most trusted document delivery methods available today.

While fax is an engrained method of document exchange within the healthcare ecosystem, it is often hampered by limitations associated with traditional PSTN, severely limited transmission speeds and telephony infrastructure. As a result, hospitals, pharmacies, and insurance companies are subject to communication bottlenecks and must deal with a growing onset of telecommunications incompatibilities.

Fax over IP is an outdated technology and is becoming increasingly difficult to support over many carrier networks. It’s time to eliminate the complexities of provisioning SIP, T.38, PRI, T1, and other unreliable legacy transmission systems.

It’s time to redefine fax transmissions for the modern era.”

Read the full article here.

Paul Banco

As CEO of ETHERFAX®, Banco is responsible for the strategic direction of the company and leads technology development, including the patented ETHERFAX and ETHERFAX SEN intellectual property. Banco helped organizations automate their fax server operations. As a visionary, he identified the need to leverage the cloud for secure document delivery and co-founded ETHERFAX in 2009 with other telecom industry veterans.

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