Digital Signatures for Home Healthcare

With the rise of traditional healthcare costs and the preference for more affordable and comfortable medical care, Home Healthcare has become a major factor in today’s healthcare system. With over 20,000 Home Healthcare service providers, Home Healthcare organizations face fierce competition alongside strict HIPAA compliance requirements.

With CoSign digital signatures, Home Healthcare professionals can digitally sign documentation and ensure HIPAA compliance with regards to:

• Identity: The signer is authenticated before his/her signature can be applied.
• Intent: The digitally signed document provides proof of signer intent and guarantees non-repudiation of the signed document.
• Integrity: Any changes made to the digitally signed document automatically invalidate the signature(s).

CoSign digital signatures are applicable in all Microsoft®- and Adobe-generated forms and documents, as well as forms generated using custom applications. Further, a single digital signature license may be used to capture any number of patient graphical signatures. The Home Healthcare worker’s digital signature then seals the document from changes to guarantee data integrity and to provide an auditable date/time stamp.

• Expedite business processes – CoSign digital signatures create self-contained, portable, and sustainable electronic records that can be easily and rapidly routed through an organization without the need for time-consuming manual routing of paper documents.
• Lower costs – CoSign reduces organizational expenditures by eliminating the costs associated with paper-based authorization processes (i.e. paper, manually routing, archiving, etc.). As such, CoSign enables organizations to realize a quick Return on Investment (ROI).
• Legal and regulatory compliance - CoSign enables organizations to comply with all electronic regulations, including: HIPAA, FDA Title 21 CFR Part 11, ESIGN (Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act), and UETA (Uniform Electronic Transactions Act).
• Transportability – CoSign digital signatures are embedded in the document and travel with it. This means that electronic source records signed with CoSign can be shared across networks and with any third party, enabling anyone, anywhere, at any time to validate signer identity and intent, and data integrity.