NEW Zealand-based pharmacies are being told by the Ministry of Health (MOH) to get rid of their fax machine by the end of the year.
The edict comes with Kiwi pharmacists notably loathsome to give up the outdated technology, but the Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand is now forcing them to secure a digital alternative by the end of 2020.
The MOH says the change is needed as fax machines are becoming increasingly incompatible with modern technology.
The suggestion was initially made in Jul.
The British health sector has almost finished phasing their faxes out, having begun last Jan (PD 12 Dec 2018).
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