It was interesting and relevant to this subject to see that my insurer (MDASA), still requires doctors to sign and date their progress notes - was going through their on-line practice assessment recently. I run a paperless system - wonder if they'll be happy with the fact that an entry was made under my login and dated by the system. I think the latest accrediation standards state something similar but I'm not sure. T
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Cheong Sent: Friday, 18 August 2006 7:37 AM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] FW: E-signing catches on 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. -- Dr Ian R Cheong, BMedSc, FRACGP, GradDipCompSc, MBA(Exec) Health Informatics Consultant, Brisbane, Australia Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for urgent matters, please send a copy to my practice email as well: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) PRIVACY NOTE I am happy for others to forward on email sent by me to public email lists. Please ask my permission first if you wish to forward private email to other parties. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk __________ NOD32 1.1713 (20060817) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
