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Our goal at ezReferral is to save lives by using cutting-edge technology to replace the outdated fax system. Lots of things kill people. Accidents. Poison. Guns.

Drugs. Who’d guess that those funny old fax machines in our Doctor’s back offices could be such a bad thing? Here’s what is bad. People are suffering unnecessarily and even dying. If you don’t believe this, go HERE (http://hqca.ca/studies-and-reviews/continuity-of-patient-care-study/). It’s a 91 page report produced by the Health Quality Council of Alberta detailing what happened to Greg Price, a beloved uncle, cousin, and son who, in this day and age, passed away unnecessarily from surgery made necessary by Greg failing to receive timely treatment for testicular cancer. Please do read the report. All 91 pages of it. We did. For a reason. Because to so many of us, across Alberta and Canada, this is personal. When we look at how things are done, it always seems to come back to the fax machine being at the hub of the broken referral wheel. Faxes are not reliable. They are not efficient. Even electronic faxes do little more than store images on computers, images that people have to manually type into their medical systems. They don’t keep people informed, they get lost, they overwhelm people, they take up space, and they are hard to manage. They are a carryover from the 1970’s, and as you will see HERE(http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/the-age-of-the-fax-machine-is-finally-coming-to-an-end/242660/), in an article published in The Atlantic, people had good reason to see it as obsolete - back in 2011. So, if faxes are so outdated, why does the health sector cling on to them? Here’s some good reasons:
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That’s right, there are none. Secure, fast collaborative technology is in place today that can quickly and easily transform the medical referral system. Technology that will not only save lives, but also allow family doctors to increase their level of care, specialists to better manage their incoming referrals, improve the quality of their consultations, and shorten their waitlists, while Hospitals will be able to quickly and easily let our family doctors and others know when we have been in the emergency department or have been discharged from hospital and need extra care. We’re not blaming anyone (except faxes). We’re here to reach out and collaborate with other like-minded people. We want to free our government to fund the areas most in need – more doctors, more nurses, more hospitals and more clinics rather than more government-funded computer programs. We’re in favour of something that is by the people of Canada, for the people of Canada, that improves the daily lives of Canadians in need of care and costs a whole lot less in the process. Do you have a true story to share about one or more botched referrals that impacted you, your friends or family member’s well-being? We’d like to hear. Because, like Greg Price’s family, we’d like to turn this into meaningful change. Do you have a personal interest in fixing the medical referral system? Then please “like” this page, and you’ll see what we, as a widening group of everyday people, are doing to fix this problem right here, right now. Thank you.

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http://www.ezreferral.ca/

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Lots of things kill people. Accidents. Poison. Guns. Drugs. Who’d guess that those funny old fax machines in our Doctor’s back offices could be such a bad thing? Here’s what is bad. People are suffering unnecessarily and even dying. If you don’t believe this, go HERE (http://hqca.ca/studies-and-reviews/continuity-of-patient-care-study/). It’s a 91 page report produced by the Health Quality Council of Alberta detailing what happened to Greg Price, a beloved uncle, cousin, and son who, in this day and age, passed away unnecessarily from surgery made necessary by Greg failing to receive timely treatment for testicular cancer. Please do read the report. All 91 pages of it. We did. For a reason. Because to so many of us, across Alberta and Canada, this is personal. When we look at how things are done, it always seems to come back to the fax machine being at the hub of the broken referral wheel. Faxes are not reliable. They are not efficient. Even electronic faxes do little more than store images on computers, images that people have to manually type into their medical systems. They don’t keep people informed, they get lost, they overwhelm people, they take up space, and they are hard to manage. They are a carryover from the 1970’s, and as you will see HERE(http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/the-age-of-the-fax-machine-is-finally-coming-to-an-end/242660/), in an article published in The Atlantic, people had good reason to see it as obsolete - back in 2011. So, if faxes are so outdated, why does the health sector cling on to them? Here’s some good reasons: - ... That’s right, there are none. Secure, fast collaborative technology is in place today that can quickly and easily transform the medical referral system. Technology that will not only save lives, but also allow family doctors to increase their level of care, specialists to better manage their incoming referrals, improve the quality of their consultations, and shorten their waitlists, while Hospitals will be able to quickly and easily let our family doctors and others know when we have been in the emergency department or have been discharged from hospital and need extra care. We’re not blaming anyone (except faxes). We’re here to reach out and collaborate with other like-minded people. We want to free our government to fund the areas most in need – more doctors, more nurses, more hospitals and more clinics rather than more government-funded computer programs. We’re in favour of something that is by the people of Canada, for the people of Canada, that improves the daily lives of Canadians in need of care and costs a whole lot less in the process. Do you have a true story to share about one or more botched referrals that impacted you, your friends or family member’s well-being? We’d like to hear. Because, like Greg Price’s family, we’d like to turn this into meaningful change. Do you have a personal interest in fixing the medical referral system? Then please “like” this page, and you’ll see what we, as a widening group of everyday people, are doing to fix this problem right here, right now. Thank you.