Will you ever turn off the fax machine at your practice?
The My Aged Care fax line is being decommissioned.
Fax machines are in the firing line.
The My Aged Care fax number is being turned off from 31 July, with the Department of Health and Aged Care saying it will move entirely to electronic referrals via HealthLink.
And in Tasmania, the State Government has been touting its own electronic referral system, which now covers all four major public hospitals and therefore, in the Premier’s view, “replaces the need for faxes, emails, printed and scanned written referrals”.
The death of the fax machine has been predicted for a long time, but every prediction so far has been wrong.
