Guides and news about sending faxes and telecoms.
In the pharmacy, the fax machine hasn't disappeared: care-home prescriptions, emergency stock transfers between colleagues, compounded preparations and exchanges with pharmaceutical wholesalers still go through it. Here's how to sort these flows one by one and keep reception reliable after the shutdown of the copper network.
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Veterinary practices were left out of the major digitisation programmes that transformed human healthcare, and the fax machine has survived there: laboratory results, referrals between colleagues, pharmacy orders. Here is how to map those workflows and move them to online fax without losing a single test result.
Receiving a fax by email solves only half the problem: you still have to read it, name it, route it and find it again. Here is a method for processing incoming faxes — OCR, sorting rules, indexing — that you can put in place this week.
The African continent remains one of the most temperamental fax destinations: congested lines, misdialled country codes, awkward time differences. Here's the method for getting your faxes through to Dakar, Abidjan, Casablanca or Kinshasa on the first try.
Many consulates, immigration services and foreign authorities still require a fax for certain documents. Here's how an expat, a student or a traveller can send and receive a fax from any country, without a landline or a fax machine.
In insurance, everything hinges on short deadlines: five working days for water damage, two days for theft, ten days after a natural disaster order. Here's how to use online fax to timestamp a claim report, chase an adjuster and keep a usable record.