On 29 October 2026, HHS’s Office for Civil Rights announced that Lehigh Valley Health Network will pay $800,000 over a 2023 ransomware attack that exposed records of 248,359 people. Two of the findings were a missing risk analysis and no regular review of system...
On 15 October 2026 the FCC’s revised copper retirement and discontinuance rules take effect. Carriers can now retire copper with less public notice and faster approvals, and none of the five replacement services they can point to has to carry a fax. If your fax...
On 17 September the HHS Office for Civil Rights announced a $700,000 settlement with Ambry Genetics over a phishing breach affecting 225,370 people. Read the findings and something stands out. OCR did not cite a single provision about how protected health information...
Two things are true about fax and HIPAA, and they point in different directions. Almost no fax incident starts with someone intercepting a transmission. It starts with a wrong number. And almost no enforcement action turns on the wrong number itself. It turns on the...
Drug prior authorization is the next exchange with a proposed electronic destination. CMS-0062 would put it on FHIR APIs for medical benefit drugs and NCPDP standards for pharmacy benefit drugs, with a proposed compliance date of 1 October 2027. It is still a...
AT&T started permanently decommissioning copper in roughly 500 wire centers in June 2026. Business lines get a minimum of 180 days of notice, and then the dial tone stops for good. If a fax machine still sits on one of those lines, fax server software is the part...
