Clinipad enables a dental practice to use an electronic tablet to collect patient details and signatures for predetermined documents in EXACT, and then store those documents in such a way that the document can be verified as original and un-altered, and the signature can be verified as genuine.
It is suitable for all practices. It is used primarily in Reception, but it is also possible to complete forms in the Surgery.
Applicable documents:
Update, store and print Patient Details.
Update, store and print Medical History details with electronic signature.
Create Estimates for electronic signing and generation as PDF forms.
Record Oral Health Surveys.
Sign Terms and Conditions.
Technology:
The technological base for this electronic signatures functionality is the digital signature security supported by the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) document format, which provides a way to authenticate digital data based on public key cryptography.
Functionality:
The patient (or practice) is able to
Complete appropriate details on forms electronically.
Enter exemption/remission entitlement, ethnic group and patient representative's name and relationship to the patient electronically.
Enter medical details (history, medication etc) electronically.
The practice is able to
View, store and print electronically-signed medical forms.
View all details on the current electronically-signed form/s.
Store forms with a date and time stamp, a link to the appropriate COT and a full audit trail.
View and confirm on screen that a form has been signed electronically.
Print forms that have been signed electronically, with the digital signature shown.