Why does American medicine still run on fax machines?

Re:Why does American medicine still run on fax machines? by ahuxley2013 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @02:10AM (#15591396)

Faxes are considered the only secure communication channel by medical companies. Email is not secure. The Vatican has the same stance. They pope communicates via fax the majority of the time, per 60 minutes.

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Re:Why does American medicine still run on fax machines? by t0mbstone on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @02:30AM (#15591450)

Which is utterly insane, because faxes aren't encrypted. All anyone would have to do is tap into the phone line and copy the signals and they could print out any fax that was sent over the wire.

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Re:Why does American medicine still run on fax machines? by Terribledactyl on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @03:19AM (#15591562)

I mean they have a few niceties like having to physically be in the same spot to interact with it and lacking any sort of central discoverability. There’s not really an equivalent to email:[email protected] password:p0p3 and having anybody with a computer getting a copy.

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