> Do they count fax machines as digital? I'm surprised by the number of medical practices in Australia that still use fax machines for sending reports and refe

> Do they count fax machines as digital? I'm surprised by the number of medical practices in Australia that still use fax machines for sending reports and referrals. Ordinary email is widely not viewed as sufficiently secure to use for sending confidential patient health data (although I've seen a minority use it for that purpose anyway). There is a secure digital messaging system supposed to replace fax machines, HealthLink, which some practices use. But it is owned by a private company and costs extra $$$, and a lot of practices decide they don't want to pay it. So fax machines survive. Now running over VoIP (actually FoIP) – Australia has turned off its POTS telephone system.