Insights
Digital Consent Workflows
With Handwritten eSignatures
Anyone can sign their name on a paper form. It’s easy, immediate, and clearly demonstrates consent. But using paper forms in environments like hospitals is insecure, expensive, and inefficient. So how can organizations eliminate paper forms, retain the familiarity of pen and paper, and drive digital efficiency?
Handwritten electronic signatures deliver the best-of-both worlds – with 100% digital process and an intuitive signing experience that feels just like pen and paper.
The ROI of Digitizing Consent
The Cost of Paper Forms
Paper forms generate numerous costs for healthcare organizations from the cost of the paper in the printer to the time wasted by patients and staff completing, scanning, checking, updating and archiving paperwork.
Hard costs like paper and scanners are simple to quantify and compelling. For example, the average 1500 bed hospital spends $4 million a year on printing1.
But that misses the soft costs, which can be exponentially higher. In addition to printing and scanning, getting paper records back into an electronic health record (EHR) requires staff to spend significant amounts of time re-typing or scanning each document.
The impact of going digital
There are three key metrics that leading healthcare organizations can use to measure the impact of digitizing their patient consent process.
Errors and omissions
Studies show that paper forms are extremely error prone with an estimated 50% containing errors and up to 90% containing critical omissions2. By contrast, automating eForm generation, enabling digital patient review and capturing consent with a handwritten electronic signature can all combine to reduce error and omission rates to less than 7%2.
Time spent at registration
Savings on paper
Signature Capture Hardware
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STU-540
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DTU-1141B
Wacom signature pads provide a low cost, reliable way to capture handwritten signatures from patients electronically.
- Secure transactions
Transaction security using state of-the-art AES and RSA encryption standards.
- Native support
Native support for Citrix-ready in standard USB mode; VMware Horizon certified.
- Virtual-ready
Virtual COM Port (VCP) mode for Citrix v6.5 and other virtualized desktop environments.
Wacom pen displays enable patients to read and sign forms on screen as they would on paper with biometrically and visually accurate digital ink.
- Multiple resolutions
Support for 6 different resolutions from 800x600 to 1920x1080.
- Secure transactions
Transaction security using state of-the-art AES and RSA encryption standards.
- Native support
Native support for Citrix-ready in standard USB mode; VMware Horizon certified.
Working with your EHR
Wacom devices are supported by many her providers including Cerner, Epic, Dedalus, Fujitsu and others. With Wacom, signed digital documents are saved right into the patient record – no printing, scanning, or archiving required.
EHR vendors can integrate Wacom one of three ways: 1) building it directly using our software development kits; 2) utilizing a middleware vendor that already has an integration in place; or 3) utilizing one of Wacom’s plug-ins.
Each of these approaches includes free integration and product support from Wacom. They can also be used to integrate any Wacom device, including both signature pads and the pen displays.