Why then is the fax machine still a mainstay of healthcare? The obvious answer is that it simply cannot be easily replaced.

A co-worker recently observed to me, “I can’t believe it’s almost 2023, and we are still using fax machines!” I nodded in agreement, and also started wondering why that was the case. According to ...

On any given day, oncologist Mark Lewis, MD, feels like he's seesawing between two eras of technology. One minute, he's working on sequencing a tumor genome. The next, he's sifting through pages of ...

Drug Mart Pharmacy, an independent drugstore in South Plainfield, New Jersey. Credit - Art Author, Public Domain (CC0 1.0) Drug Mart Pharmacy, an independent drugstore in South Plainfield, New Jersey.

If any of Rodney Eddins' accounting clients want his undivided attention at work first thing in the morning, they should shun e-mail or his telephone answering machine. Instead, they should send him a ...

Fax machines are widely regarded as insecure, clunky, and just generally obsolete pieces of tech that deserve to be burned in effigy, not unlike a lot of the other shit we remember from the earlier ...

Public health officials in Houston are struggling to keep up with one of the nation’s largest coronavirus outbreaks. They are desperate to trace cases and quarantine patients before they spread the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I checked in at my doctor’s office this week, suited up with a mask, gloves and full body armor, when I heard the strangest noise nearby.

Fax machines and dinosaurs have become colloquially interchangeable. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. From ...

Before public health officials can manage the pandemic, they must deal with a broken data system that sends incomplete results in formats they can’t easily use. By Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz ...