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SecureCare Unveils Its Digital Signature and Annotation Features for Sfax

(Feb 11, 2008)-- "Up to 80 percent of a patient's chart comes into a physician practice from outside the office primarily via manual faxing methods. With Sfax and the launch of our Digital Signature and annotation features, health care providers can save up to 95 percent of the time and up to 80 percent of the cost of manual faxing. "  said CEO Dennis Nasto on the announcement of  the launch of its newest features for its flagship product, Sfax.

"As more providers consider the move to EMRs, Sfax will speed the adoption rate as a majority of that record will already be in an electronic format. This will eliminate one of the biggest challenges associated with converting old paper records to electronic records." continued Nasto.

SecureCare Technologies, a health care information technology company  announced the launch of its newest features for its flagship product, Sfax, making it a truly paperless electronic fax management system for health care providers.

The Digital Signature feature provides every user with a true digital certificate, allowing a provider to digitally sign each fax from a secure, HIPAA-ready platform. This feature saves health care providers significant amounts of time and money that would be spent printing faxes in order to physically sign them and then manually sending them back. Special annotation features allow users to edit faxed documents with tools such as check marks and text boxes.

As the first and only EFR (electronic fax record), Sfax also serves as a seamless transitioning agent to electronic medical records (EMRs) platforms for health care providers striving to convert to an electronic-based health care system. Sfax recognizes the importance and abundance of faxing in health information exchange, with 14.9 billion faxes being sent and received between providers annually, and facilitates a manageable transition to EMRs. The majority of a Patient Health Record is transmitted through manual faxing methods. With Sfax, there will be no need for users to scan every manual fax into their EMR systems as documentation will already be electronic.

Sfax is a bi-directional electronic faxing system enabling health care providers to send, receive and manage faxes from any application on any computer with an Internet connection. Sfax can be easily integrated as an add-on module with existing health care applications or it can be sold as a stand-alone solution. The system operates on a HIPAA-ready platform, providing a complete log and audit trail for all documents, ensuring the secure transfer of sensitive patient health information, a feature virtually nonexistent with manual faxing.

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