eSignature Legitimacy for Businesses in the United Kingdom

How to eSign a document: eSignature legitimacy for businesses in United Kingdom

a digital nhs is often spoken of in terms of a major transition that will take a while to adjust to the reality is that healthcare providers can go digital now reducing time effort and cost we approached the penn tablet specialists wacom to find out how digital signatures and tablet technology can deliver the digital future today it and the nhs aren't happy bedfellows billions of pounds have been spent trying to digitize large tracts of the organization often without success wacom have come up with a simple solution to a single problem and it looks like this mark cool is wacom's uk account manager mark tell me what this is and what it does okay so this is uh wacom's signpro signature tablet and this basically enables any business or any environment to go totally paperless by enabling you to do digital signatures on documents okay then mark show me mark sets up a scenario involving a computerized consent form in word even though most of it can be filled in electronically the form would normally need to be printed off so i can sign it with wacom software installed the sign pro appears as an option when the print button is pressed the area of the document which needs a signature is highlighted and all i have to do is sign the signpro pad so now the soundprob tablet has now fired up and it's asking you basically to sign on the line there as i write on the pad my signature is captured by the wacom software but it's not just my signature the computer's storing as soon as the stylus touches the signature pad the wacom software and tablet starts to capture biometric information it records the angle at which the pen is being held by the user the amount of pressure being applied and the speed at which the signature is performed is also stored the technology also notes when the pen is lifted off the signature pad which happens when crossing an eye or dotting a tee so you've already captured one of my signatures yes if i give you another signature it would be able to verify whether or not i am who i am it would should we do that yeah let's go for it mark calls up his signature verification software and takes me through the same signing procedure as before the computer knows it's me giving me a 100 match even when i sign my name in a rush the software takes into account the biometric information it's stored with my signature and passes me again well that's pretty impressive mark but why don't we get someone trying to forge my signature and see if the computer can identify the imposter i'd love to do that we've asked this shifty looking character to spend his morning practicing my signature now he's going to try to fool the wacom software the fraudster puts a close approximation of my signature on the wacom sign pro but despite the visual similarities the software isn't fooled mark blanchard works for gov news now which presents innovative private sector ideas to the public sector he realizes the potential wacom has within the nhs we've seen from our research that there are pioneering nhs organizations who are moving into a paperless environment wacom and the wacom devices and the biometrics can take an organization to the very end of their journey and i can only see as the nhs looked to achieve a paper light environment by 2018 that a fully paperless environment can be achieved through backup wacom's hardware is used in the retail and banking sectors across europe but the nhs is a different matter mark the nhs has had its fair share of it disasters why is this product any different it's down to its simplicity basically all we're trying to do is uh replace the print key so instead of printing a document off and filling it in and signing it what we want to do is print to the wacom solution and sign it online the uk is about three years behind the rest of europe now if you look across europe everything from retail the banking sector the health sector the government are all using this type of technology right now in fact across italy and spain we have over 90 percent of the banking market the nhs is always looking to reduce costs and improve efficiency do you think that this product can do that most definitely yes it is it's going to do that without a doubt at the end of the day if you can get rid of parts of a workflow that makes something a lot quicker and a lot easier and a lot smoother then it's going to help wacom believe it pays to go paperless and the solution to do that is available now