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Health Care Applications of Electronic Signatures

Few industries document their customers as extensively as health care. Because of the proliferation of consultants, subcontractors and variously affiliated care providers, a single hospital visit can generate several different admission forms taken at several different times, opening the way to data variations that can be difficult and costly to trace and correct.

Not only must the patient's information be complete and accurate, it must be highly secure, readily accessible and stored for years - no easy task for paperbound records. Add to this the often complex government regulatory requirements and its easy to see why paper record keeping has reached critical condition in many hospitals and clinics.

Enter Electronic Signature Capture. One set of patient data captured electronically upon admission can instantaneously populate the forms of all health care providers. Medical charts can be updated and transmitted easily, preventing possible mistakes in treatment. Patient history can be quickly sorted for relevant information. Billing questions can be resolved onscreen.

The benefits of e-documents in the health care industry are so numerous that some providers have even begun encoding patient medical information on their health care ID card. One day soon, a single data chip may contain our complete health care history.