[asterisk-users] FXS Solutions for modems and other non jitter tolerant devices

[Kevin Larsen]

> The legal and medical communities still seem to prefer faxing, in 
> the ( mistaken? ) belief that it is more secure. In fact the medical
> community is fearful of the legal beagles.
> 
> These groups are really slow to change.
> At least in the USA

The couple of times I have received medical faxes to my fax bank scare me 
about the actual security. My company is not in the medical field, nowhere 
close, in fact.

In one case, the fax included the patients name, address, phone, Date of 
Birth, SSN, and confidential medical history. The comment I made to a 
coworker was that if I wanted to steal an identity, they had just handed 
me everything I would need.

In the second case, it was a question from a pharmacy to a doctors office. 
Not quite so bad. I called up the pharmacy and said I had a problem with a 
fax they had sent. After asking me for some information from the fax so 
they could identify which patient I was calling about they asked what the 
problem was. I replied that I was a manufacturer of balloons and not a 
doctor's office. To say there was a bit of panic creeping into the guys 
voice on the other end was an understatement. I think I triggered some 
HIPAA reporting provisions.
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