Roy,
A few questions brought to mind. It seems to be saying that regular old computer generated faxes are going to be a no no after next New Year. But it seems to possibly leave open good old fashioned hardcopy faxing (print 'em and then fax 'em; not perfect but...) as it seems to be talking about docs with EMR's. Yeah, I know, punish us early adopters more, but it seems to avoid old fashioned paper charters completely which is probably still about 75% of the country presently.
Also, on the same idea, what about good old fashioned hand the patient a paper Rx at time of service? This too seems to be left out almost as if it was intentionally tip-toed around so as to make you the end user and consumer (they are hoping to rope you in I think) think that the only way to be compliant next year is with a full blown, hemi powered, USS Enterprise, CCHIT compliant EMR or some sort of extra Rx service.
Get where I'm going with this? Although not perfect, it seems that only computer generated faxes are covered here. Are they really saying that all docs, including the 75% who are still paper chart based, are going to have to violently throw themselves into the 21st century that fast? I'm not sure myself, but I think you should do some more digging seeing it was you who was contacted and let us all know what you find out. Obviously if anyone else here has the chance to talk to anyone in the know you too should be asking the intelligent questions and get back here and please share with the group.
Anyway, try not to let your BP get as high as mine usually is over such matters. We've got a long weekend ahead of ourselves with heavy wet snow and lots of tasks to attend to. Have a great weekend....
Paul
