Forward Advantage has been busy. Between our new cloud-native platform, updates from our partner network, and ongoing investment in solutions & services that reduce manual tasks, there's a lot happening aimed at one goal: giving your team more time back.

Moving to MEDITECH Expanse is an ideal time to optimize your faxing, reporting, and document workflows to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and standardize or automate processes across your organization.

Healthcare systems and hospitals that rely on Communication Director for their faxing and report distribution are not typically in a position to leave anything to chance. Being prepared and making a good plan are in your DNA, so if you are contemplating a move to MEDITECH Expanse or are already preparing to move, here are considerations for Communication Director during the transition.

Migrating to a new EHR/EMR is an exciting time, but we know it can be stressful, too. To help lessen some of the stress and burden we’ve gathered some helpful information on what to expect with Communication Director (CDS) when you migrate to MEDITECH Expanse in an article, including the required version and reconfiguration needs and what to expect with the API integrating which allows for on-demand faxing directly from MEDITECH.

As a critical industry, healthcare is a prime target for cybercriminal activity. Healthcare is not only vulnerable to external threats but also to attacks that originate from inappropriate employee and third-party vendor access.

Industry leaders share their experience for successful strategies for implementation and optimization, including delighting users, easing the burden on IT and mitigating device loss.

Forward Advantage announced the latest release of RapidFiler 2.0 and includes additional features to improve provider and charting efficiencies, saving time and giving providers quicker access to the documents they need to care for their patients.

The healthcare industry has been undergoing a profound transformation in recent years, driven by advancements in technology. As we step into 2024, the landscape of healthcare IT continues to evolve, bringing innovative solutions that enhance patient care, improve efficiency, and transform the way healthcare is delivered.

Forward Advantage is proud to share its status as one of the first to be named an innovator-level partner in MEDITECH’s Alliance program. As an innovator-level partner in the MEDITECH Alliance program, we will provide embedded solutions and continue our integrated relationship with MEDITECH’s Business and Technology teams.

This month, Forward Advantage had the privilege of partnering with Interlace Health on a topic everyone in healthcare is familiar with – the nationwide nursing shortage. We encourage our readers to explore this new post for practical examples of how healthcare organizations can use technology to do more with less.

They say good things come in threes. In Forward Advantage’s case, that’s three decades of solutions that continuously evolve to meet the unique challenges of our healthcare customers. A big thank you to our customers, many of whom have been with us since the very beginning!

Forward Advantage has named Mike Knebel (formerly VP of Sales and Business Development) as CEO. Chris Roggenstein, Founder, and former CEO announced his retirement after 30 years serving as a visionary for the company and leading the development of multiple product offerings and partnerships that established Forward Advantage as a leader in the healthcare market.  

The pandemic drove many CIOs and technology leaders to quickly shift gears and embrace new workflows and supporting technologies. Sharing your EHR-integrated faxing solution with your ambulatory environment benefits everyone. It benefits your bottom line, your IT staff, your providers across the continuum of care, and most importantly – your patients.

As healthcare organizations plan for the coming year, a variety of trends will continue to drive disruption and transformation in the industry. To help our customers, we've rounded up the top health IT trends Forward Advantage anticipates for 2023.

Healthcare is a prime example of an industry for which faxing still serves a vital purpose. Given faxing proven track-record, easy implementation, and lower total costs of ownership, faxing remains one of healthcare’s most reliable and secure means of exchanging large quantities of clinical information. Although the need for healthcare faxing isn’t predicted to change, the requirements have. Modern faxing software has come a long way with EHR integration, automated deliveries

Migrating to a new system doesn't need to be stressful and expensive. Let Forward Advantage handle your data preservation and migration using our proprietary process that allows quicker access to extracted data.

Cybersecurity attacks are increasingly sophisticated with no sign of slowing down, particularly for critical industries like healthcare. This has left many organizations unsure how to proceed, especially when up against tight deadlines. Forward Advantage recently navigated its own new set of cybersecurity insurance requirements, so we understand the frustration felt by many of our customers.

Summit Pacific needed assistance in migrating its existing charts and other data from its old system into MEDITECH while also needing a new solution to manage these inbound documents. Forward Advantage helped on both accounts, and the facility is now successfully using its new RapidFiler solution to streamline the filing of inbound faxes into MEDITECH's Echart.

Healthcare is a critical industry that simply can’t afford unreliable fax transmissions. King's Daughters Medical Center implemented cloud-based faxing through Communication Director to remedy this.

New technology may have replaced faxing in some industries, but it is still highly prevalent in healthcare. In fact, Bloomberg Law recently reported that at least 70% of healthcare providers still exchange medical information using a fax machine. Why is this? Faxing is familiar, efficient, and generally affordable. In many cases, it’s the only report delivery solution available to healthcare organizations and practices without resources for more sophisticated interoperability