U.K. National Health Service Signs Fax Machines’ Death Certificate [Fortune]
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As part of overhauling its technology systems, the National Health Service (NHS) in the U.K. said it will ban fax machines . Health Secretary Matt Hancock has forbid purchase of new fax machines starting in 2019 and ordered complete end of their use by April of the following year. A report earlier this year by the Royal College of Surgeons pointed to “farcical” use of the devices , according to the Telegraph . At that point, doctors across the NHS used 9,000 of the machines to transmit and receive patient information. The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospital NHS Foundation Trust alone had 603 of them. Fax use has caused problems with the confidentiality of patient information. “We constantly receive faxes meant for other places in error but this is never reported,” said cognitive behavioral therapist Rebecca McIntyre to the BBC. In frustration, some doctors had turned to sending patient information over the smartphone app WhatsApp. But others question the wisdom of j
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