At 9:30 am +1000 17/8/06, David Guest wrote:
[...]> a scanned image of the referral letter as proof that the
referral took place,
they do not insist the paper original be kept.
They don't say the scanning has the take place in the specialist's
surgery...
Ian
Signatures can be a problem in generated documents. Time to find that
Viner Hand ITC again.
But people have signed with rubber stamp signatures for decades. The
government does in on Reserve Bank cheques. One has to have a
management policy restricting use of such a "signature" to the signer
or appropriately authorised delegate.
(an article on electronic signatures
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/e_michael_1.html)
Presumably one could do the same thing with a TIFF of your signature
as long as it was appropriately managed. Wondering if one can use
steganography to authenticate a bitmap signature....
Obviously if you sign your digital outgoings with your HESA private
key (I presume there is a digital timestamp from an external time
stamp server in the signed document somewhere), you will have no
problems. Don't even ask them if you can, just do it.
Don't forget, Medicare has no interest in collecting all those
referral letters unless their data mining computer has reason to
audit and they are investigating.
Ian.
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