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Fax is still widely used in the American healthcare system for the same reason. It's social reasoning rather than technical reasoning, combined with being exce
by Calavar 2y ago
Fax is still widely used in the American healthcare system for the same reason.
It's social reasoning rather than technical reasoning, combined with being excessively liability conscious and catering to the lowest common denominator.
If you communicate confidential data by email, or really anything that's electronic and remotely accessible, it's only a matter of time until someone with poor judgment opens up their work laptop with confidential data plastered all over the screen while sitting in the middle seat on an airplane.
- BjoernKW 2y ago> On the other hand, a fax machine is usually located in an office that's only physically accessible to people with badge access. Well, again during the pandemic, the documentation of individual vaccinations in vaccination centres in Germany of course was done on reams of paper (because "more secure than digital" ...). That paper was then sent daily (via messenger, no less) to so-called "digitisation centres", where those piles of paper were scanned - and yes - turned into PDFs.