Certain transmissions, including of paper, via facsimile, and of voice, via telephone, are not considered to be transmissions via electronic media if the information being exchanged did not exist in electronic form immediately before the transmission.
The current definition of "electronic media" excludes Fax for anything that was not digital immediately before transmission.
The problem with faxes
Fred Trotter (me) analysis of the security of Fax from 2010
protected health information stored, whether intentionally or not, in photocopier, facsimile, and other devices is subject to the Privacy and Security Rules.
Change indicating that digital copies of patient records stored in the memory of fax machines was covered under HIPAA
This modification clarifies that a facsimile machine accepting a hardcopy document for transmission is not a covered transmission even though the document may have originated from printing from an electronic file.
Discussing print then scan-over-fax
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