Hi all,
MidCentral DHB is starting to develop a policy on the usage of electronic signatures for letters, and such. Has anyone else done similar or had any experiences with it going wrong or leading to unintended consequences.
Many thanks for any help you can give.
Greig
Hi Greig - Not trying to sound like a smartass here but surely the question is ‘how does the DHB implement digital identity?’ . The signing of artifacts is then just one of the many aspects of improvement that a digital identity can achieve. (from opening the appropriate doors, to logging into the clinical systems to paying for meals at lunchtime) . If you focus on signing documents then someone is going to sell you some licences for Adobe Acrobat Pro…
Hi
are we talking - the doctors signing letters /results - which is intrinsic dictation and result workflow and would have thought most of us are doing a lot of that already
or are we talking the patients signing consent?
and for that are we talking “capturing the signature” electronically on a device that withstands infection control and being passed around etc etc
or are we talking them putting their “digital signature” onto a document - which is something they do in Estonia and is tied up with their entire digital identity concept
Hi Mark, good point. This issue just lept the fence from the executive table and landed on my desk. I agree that this should be a digital identity issue. My understanding is that it is about the policies that govern when a signature facsimiles are attached to documents by EA etc rather than the process of doing it.
Sorry for not being clearer
Hi Greig,
We currently use DocuSign and so do many industries, including legal firms. The product is easy to use and implement.