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If anyone's first reaction was along the lines of: "Faxing in 2017?" or "Is this an April Fool's joke?", consider that the healthcare industry still uses faxes
by apeace 10y ago
If anyone's first reaction was along the lines of: "Faxing in 2017?" or "Is this an April Fool's joke?", consider that the healthcare industry still uses faxes frequently.
I once interviewed at a company that was building software for ordering durable medical equipment in hospitals. They told me that all orders were faxed to the insurance companies, and the error rate for copying data to the faxed form was about 90%. This results in repeated fax transmissions and patients waiting days to know whether their insurance company will buy them a wheelchair.
Using an API like this, you can at least digitize one end of the process, error-free, and still deliver the expected fax to the other side which hasn't upgraded yet.
- iamatworknow 10y agoA lot of the personal financing industry still does too, particularly for car loans. There are some web solutions but they always involve some third party service that both the car dealership and bank has to sign up (and pay) for.
- Roboprog 10y agoNo :-) My first reaction was "I have to rewrite one of these in a week or two, is this API easier/cheaper to use than our current vendor?" I suppose if this post had come up a few months earlier or later, I would not have cared so much. But today, I'm all over it.