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This day in 2005, these men, save one, were in an AAV that rolled over a large IED.  Travis Williams had been called away to another vehicle as  they were loading up.  Their 28 ton track was flipped over and burned.  Hard to believe time passes, isn't it? 

God bless these men and their families.  
Thank you for your service, and CD, thank you for your sharing.  

Yes, but correct me if I'm wrong. It's not a fax with the thermal paper and a phone line that actually dials a number.  It's all somehow software driven, and the faxes are just digitally received and saved, not printed out like in the old days. 
So even though technically it's a fax, it's not like the ones we used to do with the scanning and thermal paper. 

So when's the last time you sent an honest-to-goodness, scan, call the number, feed the paper, get a confirmation page fax? For me, probably around the year 2000, +/- 3 years. 

First part: A medical office faxing anything is using a dedicated fax line serviced by their phone company.  If the phone lines go down, they can't send or receive any faxes, even if the internet is still up and everything else within the EMR is accessible.  You're correct that it's software-driven, in that the fax server is integrated with the EMR, but ultimately the EMR is just sending and receiving data via that fax server and its dedicated line.  Whether it's done in the EMR or on an old-school machine, it's dialing a number.  Faxes are "digitally received".....from the fax server, which received them same as they ever did.  As far as thermal paper, I don't know what you're talking about there.  The fax machines I'm familiar with used regular printer paper. 

Second part:  I did it every day when I worked at my wife's clinic.  Our setup--admittedly a little behind the times because the doc who owned the clinic wouldn't spring for the setup necessary to send faxes from the EMR, only receive them--required all referrals, requests, and records-sharing to go through an old school fax machine.  I logged countless hours standing in front of that old thing, trying to make sure it didn't feed more than one paper at a time and thus screw up the entire document transmission.  Fortunately incoming transmissions went to an add-on within the EMR software and we didn't have to gather incoming transmissions from the machine.  Some of the stuff we got was 60, 80, 100 pages.  That would've been a mess.  

It's about security.  Docs and insurance due to HIPAA, and some various government and financial institutions as well.  We had a decent discussion about it once, a couple years back I think.