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Communication Director

Electronic fax & intelligent report distribution for healthcare

Flexible and powerful, Communication Director is Forward Advantage's electronic fax and intelligent report distribution solution, purpose-built for healthcare. As a full-featured faxing service compatible with most EHRs, it's customizable with multiple delivery modes. For those looking for cloud faxing solutions, Communication Director offers e-faxing/cloud-based faxing, plus traditional faxing and FoIP.

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Extensive connectivity and compatibility with:

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A HIPAA compliant fax service built into every transmission

Healthcare organizations can't afford compliance gaps in their fax workflows. Communication Director is a HIPAA compliant fax service that auditing, giving you a secure fax online solution you can trust. Whether you need to send protected health information to external providers or require audit trails for regulatory review, Communication Director's built-in System Activity Monitor (SAM) provides access to important information. For compliance teams evaluating a HIPAA fax platform, Communication Director delivers the audit logging and activity monitoring.

One solution to fit your unique requirements

Intelligent, automated report & faxing distribution

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Paperless desktop faxing

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Built-in auditing and tracking

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Customizable with optional modules

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Intelligent, automated report and fax distribution

Communication Director utilizes SmartRoute Technology to automatically route reports and electronic faxes to the appropriate recipients based on individual delivery preferences. 

  • Supports multiple output formats, including PostScript and readable PDFs, helping automate report and digital fax distribution.

  • Recipients benefit from the ability to decide which reports 
    they want to receive – unlike the “all or nothing” capabilities of some EHRs or other faxing solutions. 

Interested in distributing inbound documents?  Add-on the optional Inbound Fax Management module to take advantage of paperless, automated inbound fax distribution. Or explore our other modules below!

Windows® Applications

Fax from any Windows® application using Communication Director DesktopFax. With options like personal and shared phonebooks as well as cover page templates, your days of printing and faxing are over.

Email-to-Fax/Fax-to-Email

Use the optional Email module and Email-to-Fax module to send and receive faxes as attachments in most email clients. This email to fax service enables fax communication through supported email clients.

EHR Integration

Integrations specially built for  MEDITECH and Epic allow for faxing directly in the EMR and include fax status sent back.

Paperless Desktop Faxing

Communication Director is an online fax service that eliminates the need to manually print and fax. With this web fax service, simply send a virtual fax directly from your EHR/EMR, email client or Windows® application. Take your pick.


Communication Director provides an audit trail for all faxes and deliveries in the System Activity Monitor (SAM).

From email, Windows® applications and EHR/EMR

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Built-in auditing and tracking

Communication Director includes built-in analytics, dashboards and audit capabilities in a format for easy access to the data you need.

with System Activity Monitor (SAM)

Option to add SmartAlert module for around-the-clock monitoring

Dashboards offer quick visualization and fast analytic

Automated failure notifications can be sent to a printer or email address

Easily manage requests for alternate delivery methods by redirecting transactions to any available delivery module

Troubleshoot, view, and monitor activity from any workstation

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Explore our latest version

Communication Director 4.3 is here! Explore exciting, new functionality for better workflows and more streamlined communications both inside and outside your organization - including new modules for faxing from MFPs and email clients.

Network Print Module

Delivers reports to network printers.

Email Module

Deliver reports to recipients via email.

Direct Module

Sends information by Direct messaging standards.

DeliveryPlus

Flexible, automated internal and downtime report distribution.

Email-to-Fax from MFPs

Quickly fax from almost any multifunction printer/device (MFP/MFD).

Email-to-Fax from Email Clients

Send faxes from email clients like Microsoft Outlook, Google Gmail, and most POP3 or IMAP mailboxes.

CloudFax Connector

Optional cloud-based (e-faxing) for increased reliability and scalability.

File Pick-Up Module

Automatically send PDF files and files containing images and/or graphic files and reports.

File Transfer Module

Transmit report files across your network via File Transfer Protocol (FTP), secure FTP, SFTP, or the network file copy mechanism.

Inbound Fax Management

Electronically distribute incoming faxes to the correct recipients. No need to manage a separate system for inbound faxing.

SmartAlert

SmartAlert can notify you of critical issues based on your unique criteria.

Customizable Features

Communication Director is customizable to meet your unique needs. Add on any of the optional modules to make Communication Director the only system you’ll need for faxing, report distribution and downtime reporting.

Frequently Asked Questions

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June 16, 2026

Communication Director features list

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Guides & Whitepapers

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Communication Director product overview

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Let's work together

Forward Advantage listens to its customers and develops solutions and services to address healthcare's unique workflow challenges. Talk to our experts today!

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