Health Records and The Most Common Way to Share Them

According to a Data Brief released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, fax continues to be the most common method for exchanging summary of care records. About 7 in 10 hospitals used email or fax to send and receive health information in 2019 and roughly 70% of hospitals use fax as a means of sending and receiving summary of care records.

Additionally, a quarter of pharmacists still use fax to process prior authorizations, a 2021 survey by Surescripts found. The survey goes on to state that a majority of prescribers and pharmacists use fax to communicate and collaborate.

Why Use etherFAX’s DirectFax Teams Integration?

We are meeting users where they are — not creating yet another dashboard they need to log in to in order to access patient critical documents. The Microsoft Teams application is the underlying tool that Microsoft utilizes to enhance the user experience. As apps enable collaboration within a single environment, there’s no need to switch between tools and workflows to get work done. Our DirectFax Teams integration allows users to utilize the collaborative features within Teams, without having to change their existing workflows!

With DirectFax, departments can create Teams channels. Leveraging this capability, hospital teams, from clinical to administrative to financial, can better organize their collaborative tasks to improve productivity. Users can now share documentation in their relevant channel, which also makes it easier to look for the right data. If 75% of communication is done via fax, why not upgrade the way you fax to seamlessly integrate into your existing workflows?

Learn more about  etherFAX’s DirectFax  Messenger in the Microsoft Store or chat with an etherFAX team member here.