The event served to give details of the features of the system and the chance was taken to table the legal, technological and organisational aspects of possible implementation.
This system comes to guarantee the security of the document, bearing in mind that it is the patient’s acceptance of an activity that affects their health. Signing it means giving voluntary and conscious conformity and acceptance of having received adequate information on it. The hand-written electronic signature therefore goes further and records the date of the consent, the place, the pulse of the signee, the type of trace, the pressure, the inclination and even the speed with which it was done. All together it works as a guarantee of authenticity.
eConsent was first put to the test in 2014 at Mataró Hospital with the support of Fundació TicSalut and two companies specialised in signing with biometric data, Edatalia and SisInf.
The centre implemented three electronic tablets (one on the hospital floor and two in anaesthetic dispensaries) and a total of 380 hand-written electronic signatures were collected. The patients considered the system simple and practical and the professionals recognized the time-saving of the system in their work, as they were able to draw up the consents faster.
In this hospital alone, 300 consents a day are written and have to be kept in the patient’s history for fifteen years. eConsent will therefore lead to savings in the expense of preserving material.
The meeting served to show the professionals how econsent worked and to take a step forward in its use, in order to achieve not only the implementation of a technological improvement in the operation of the hospitals, but also a guarantee of security, privacy and correct preservation of health data.
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