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Implementing an Online Fax Solution in Your Medical Practice
Updated Jun 13th, 2025 - 2 min read
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The Use of Traditional Fax Machines in Healthcare Switching to an Online Fax Solution How to Implement Notifyre in Your Medical Practice Notifyre: Your Secure, Reliable Multi-channel Communications Platform
Do you have a traditional fax machine in your medical practice? Use it daily to send and receive patient information and other sensitive documents? You’re not the only one.
While the rest of the world has moved onto adopting more advanced technology like cloud-based online faxing services, healthcare organisatins of all shapes and sizes around the world continue to send and receive sensitive patient intomation using the traditional fax machine.
A 2019-2020 TigerConnect report on The State of Healthcare Communications found that approximately 90% of healthcare organisations and medical practices are still using fax machines.
The report states that ‘...healthcare has fallen behind other industries when it comes to utilizing modern forms of communication. This broken state of communication in healthcare has downstream impacts on operations, employee burnout, patient outcomes, and much more.’
There are currently many pitfalls to using a traditional fax machine in your medical practice. From hefty maintenance costs to unreliability, these problems can easily be addressed by switching to an online fax solution. Implementing Notifyre's HIPAA compliant fax solution in your medical practice can ultimately lead to improved communication, efficiency and patient satisfaction.
Why Your Medical Practice Needs to Make the Switch to an Online Fax Solution
Reduce costs – no more paper, ink and fax machine maintenance costs required
We are HIPAA compliant – so you always know you can fax protected health information (PHI) and electronic protected health information (ePHI) safely and securely through Notifyre. Explore HIPAA compliance
Our dashboard is easy to use - anyone in your organization will have the ability to send or receive a fax online, from email or through your practice management software.
Optional text messaging services are available - Use Notifyre's online SMS service to have 2-way SMS conversations or send SMS broadcasts to your patients. SMS is a great way to increase customer engagement and can be used for appointment reminders, cancellations, employee rosters/schedule changes, prescription reminders, test results and more — all while supporting interoperability in healthcare through seamless integration with other systems.
Traditional fax machines are an unreliable means of sending critical patient information – especially when your healthcare organization may be dealing with life-or-death situations on a regular basis. Stop relying on outdated fax lines and start sending faxes instantly through Notifyre.
How to Implement Notifyre in Your Medical Practice
There are many ways you can implement Notifyre in your medical practice. With Notifyre’s versatility, you can send and receive faxes from the online dashboard, email, API and even on your mobile or tablet through the Notifyre app. Choose a method that best suits your organization’s communications requirements.
The first step will be to sign up for an account and choose a plan that works best for your medical practice, based on the volume of faxes you send and receive. Once you’ve signed up, there are many Notifyre features available to boost your organization’s internal and external communications.
Port your existing fax numbers to the Notifyre platform
All Notifyre plans (excluding pay-as-you-go) come with a fax receive number, so you can start receiving faxes straight away
Easily import files from your desktop, mobile device or cloud storage
Send and receive faxes via email. There’s no need to swap platforms when integrating Notifyre into your business’ communication processes.
Add Notifyre’s powerful communications tools to your existing practice management software and systems with Fax API integration
Send fax broadcasts to thousands of contacts, all at the same time
Send high quality faxes for an additional cost.
Notifyre: Your Secure, Reliable Multi-channel Communications Platform
By implementing Notifyre in your medical practice, you’ll eliminate the need for traditional fax machines, increasing productivity in the workplace and ensuring secure, reliable transfer of sensitive patient information. Notifyre also offers HIPAA compliant text messaging, so you can send appointment reminders, patient updates, and alerts, right alongside your fax communications, all from one platform. Sign up today and get started. You can also read up on how Notifyre is achieving interoperability in the United States healthcare system.
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