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Improving medical communication with facsimile (fax) transmission

1989; Elsevier BV; Volume: 7; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0735-6757(89)90140-x

1532-8171

Loren G. Yamamoto, Robert A. Wiebe,

Mobile Health and mHealth Applications

Facsimile machines (fax) used intensely in business, send coples of documents from one location to another. The medical potential for fax has not been fully explored. A general background in fax and the potential uses for fax between hospitals and within hospitals are described. Fax permits small hospitals to share the resources of larger hospitals and permits a large hospital to share resources more efficiently among its departments. The cost of a fax unit is small compared with the amount of work and time it can save. Clinics and private physicians may also find fax units cost effective. Fax boards, which provide fax capability to personal computers, are also described. The use of fax could streamline the process of patient transfer, telephone patient consuitation, medical records retrieval, ECG interpretation, central information distribution, retrieval of medical literature, inpatient pharmacy orders, etc.