re: Why are fax machines still commonly used in certain industries?

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add to that when I learned it in the early 2000s, it was referred to as the Health Information Privacy and Protection Act...so in my head it has two Ps...

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Actually it is

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)


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Can't hack a fax

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sure you can, all you have to do is

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physically has to have a wire connected

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Do tell me about facsimile encryption.

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Two factors remove the necessity for encryption..

1) A Fax is old tech and is mostly neglected by those who would be inclined to snoop...

2) most correspondence is by email not fax and therefore due to the vast difference in those two, no one makes any effort to "hack" faxes...

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For my auto glass work if I'm billing certain insurance companies it has to be done by fax.

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It's all about claim numbers and scanning to the correct file and not necessarily the right person.

My father is a lawyer and he uses a fax machine. Electronically signed documents ie email, are legal. But there's a presumption, right or wrong, that someone is more likely to actually read a piece of paper. How much shite in your inbox do you ignore on a daily basis? And, as others have said, for someone to hack into your paper files, they actually have to be in your office and break into a locked filing cabinet. They can't do it from China or across town.

Like the federal requirement to send all controlled drug prescriptions via fax instead of e-prescribing?

I deal with both vendors and customers who do not have email.

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I've moved strictly to e-fax for both of my businesses

Much more convenient

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Same. I can also fax shite from my phone with the app. It's great. I have to deal with those health care providers.

Most of the day I am dealing with insurance and mortgage/finance companies, anything requiring a signature or confidential information that a customer has to sign we generally fax, the companies we deal with do the same.