Quoting Oliver Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Ian Cheong wrote:
> 
> > Presumably one could do the same thing with a TIFF of your signature as 
> > long as it was appropriately managed.
> 
> That's how my referrals are signed.
This is my point. E-mail that auto-generated TIFF (letter plus signature-image)
to the specialist, which they store on their system (just as they would *if* 
they scanned it). But in reality the paper referral never actually existed.

> That is *exactly* what the Medicare Australia rules expect us to do and 
> it doing so certainly satisfy those rules.  Trouble is,  most of us just 
> cannot be bothered getting an individual digital certificate.

It's not a question of bother. In my case it's a question of *not* *being* 
*allowed* to have one. I am otherwise entitled to make Medicare-valid 
referrals, and have a non-billing number (in fact several) for this purpose.

The contract for HeSA indivudal certificates is also quite onerous, exposing 
the doc to a lot of medico-legal risk, and to cap it all off the dongle 
requires a, er, dominant, operating system.

Ian 
 
>
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