Digital Signature Blog

Removing Obstacles To The Paperless Office

Many professionals dream of a "paperless office." No paper equals no paperwork, right? For physicians the day has come where satisfying patient clinical encounters come and go without the hassle and aggravation of finding and reviewing mounds of medical records for each patient. Missing charts and misplaced labs no longer have to exist.

In the past, the percentage of revenue invested for information technology in the health care industry has been significantly less than other major industries, such as financial services. With health care being an information intensive endeavor, the complexity of the information needs, and the reluctance of some physicians in health care to adapt effectively to paperless solutions.

There are several reasons why businesses don't begin the paperless process, some of those reasons are:

It is not the way we do it.
I don’t know where to start.
It is too expensive.
It’s unreliable.
Confidentiality is compromised.
The whole world is not doing it.
It decreases productivity.

There are a variety of physicians practice management software applications that have been developed, and now there are digital signature solutions for the health care industry as well. By using a digital signature solution, you are able to cure some of the immediate challenges - improving patient care, controlling costs, meeting government regulations.

The result is streamlining and integrating your health care processes – administrative and patient-related records, documents, forms and business communications which allows you to reduce costs and increase the amount of time spent on patient care.

Digital signatures replace the paper and pen in a fast paced environment, and slow and expensive paper-based approval processes with fast, low-cost, and fully digital processes with the patient, throughout the health care industry.

Digital Signature Compliance for the Health Care Industry

The growing adoption of digital signatures in the Health Care industry can be attributed to the need for administrative efficiency and improved record/data management. Also, legislation has been passed in countries around the globe, mandating the protection of patients' digital medical records.

The benefits that health care organizations have obtained from digital signatures include all of the above and more, not to mention cost savings. The South Carolina Department of Mental Health saved over $4 million dollars in the first year of implementing digital signatures solely from eliminating the need to print and route thousands of documents daily across their ten locations.

Despite the growing acceptance of digital signatures among health care organizations, many are still left in the dark. Providers are so accustomed to using paper for signature approval processes that they often don’t recognize the disadvantages of doing so. They’re often quite aware of how significant the benefits can be from turning their paper-based approval processes into electronic, but they don’t realize that it’s not “all or nothing”.

SIGNIX SIGNOLOGY is a complete enterprise signature solution which introduces enhanced capabilities that support diverse and complex signing processes of documents, forms and business communications with a range of security that fits your signing needs while mitigating risk and reducing costs.

SIGNiX digital signing solutions can be customized according to the needs of the enterprise. Any SIGNiX SIGNOLOGY solution assures a trustworthy, authenticated paperless transaction, while automating and speeding up the business process, improving staff productivity and providing a quick return on investment (ROI).

Digital signatures are inserted into the document and easily travel electronically to their destination, assuring the sender, the signee, data integrity and overall trust. SIGNOLOGY solutions can be seamlessly integrated with any business application without needing to change the existing workflow.