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December 10, 2018 04:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4RObHDo7cNw/uk-just-banned-the-national-health-service-from-buying-any-more-fax-machines
UK Just Banned the National Health Service From Buying Any More Fax Machines
The UK's NHS will be banned from buying fax machines from next month -- and has been told by the government to phase out the machines entirely by 31 March 2020. From a report: More than 9,000 fax machines are in use by the NHS, a July survey found. All will be replaced by email, according to a report from the BBC. The shift, ordered by UK health secretary Matt Hancock, is intended to improve patient safety and make communications more secure. Rebecca McIntyre, a cognitive behavioral therapist, told the BBC that using fax machines made it difficult to ensure patient's information was actually sent to the right place, and that it wasn't being seen by non-authorized people. "You would not believe the palaver we have in the work place trying to communicate important documents to services (referrals etc)," she said. "We constantly receive faxes meant for other places in error but this is never reported." Further reading: The Fax is Not Yet Obsolete.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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