Healthcare Solutions: Electronic Consent Management

Consent forms are an important part of any healthcare business. Patients need to clearly understand and accept procedures and sign consent forms before moving ahead. In addition, healthcare businesses need to retain these consent forms in the event of a dispute or disagreement in the future. Electronic patient consent forms streamline one of the most important tasks within a healthcare business. Keep your documents secure and organized.

Removing the Barriers and Busy Work

In many healthcare facilities, patient consent forms are signed manually, reviewed by a team member, and then scanned or stored appropriately. These three steps may not seem significant at first. However, repeated time and time again, day in and day out, these tasks can add up to a lot of wasted time. This takes healthcare staff away from the patients where they can have the most positive effect and, instead, places them in an administrative role.

By making clinical consent forms digital and automating the workflows associated with these forms, healthcare businesses can drastically cut down on the time it takes to collect and store consent forms. Patients can review and sign electroinic patient consent forms instantly. The completed document is then saved directly to the patient’s secure digital folder.

Eliminating Waste and Risk

By creating a digital workflow for clinical consents, healthcare professionals can eliminate a lot of unnecessary waste and risk that arises from managing these forms. Patients sign forms digitally which reduces the need for printing, paper, and ink. Once completed, the file is securely stored digitally which means there is no risk of losing the paper file.

In the event of questions, the digital file can be consulted directly from any authorized device without the need to sort through packed file rooms looking to pull paper folders. Additionally, paper documents can be damaged, but digital ones will always be safe.

Clinical consents are just one piece of sensitive patient information that must be handled with care at all times. Digitally signing sensitive documents and storing them securely for future reference is HIPAA compliant and, furthermore, this process may even reduce the risk of HIPAA violations.

With no paper files that could be misplaced or stolen, patient data is much more secure.

Computer SI has worked with healthcare organizations of all sizes to help them develop customized procedures and electronic patient consent forms that meet their unique needs while improving patient privacy and quality of service.

For a custom review of your needs and to find out how electronic consent management can streamline your processes, call us at (203) 855-0101 or complete the form below!

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