You don't have to pay Updox extra to receive faxes unless you use their eFax number to send or receive.
If you have a local fax telephone number, most newer fax printers (multifunction devices) will receive faxes as TIF images and forward to a folder on a networked PC.
-- If you don't use Updox, you can import these into AC's Imported Items (II), using the import menu. This will require opening the patient's II folder, navigating to the import folder (once), then selecting & labeling each file, and importing. Then on to the next patient, one by one. Also you have to import the whole faxed document, can't select pages to import.
-- Using Updox, a folder can be set up (using Updox Central) to upload any document sent to that folder (by the fax printer) automatically onto the Updox workspace. In Updox, faxes can be marked up, selective pages imported or combined, patient names searched, II folders selected, documents signed off with minimal clicks.
For me Updox is a real time saver.
