Incorporting Electronic Signature

[AussiePom]

Hi All, This isnt really a problem i have, but a general question.
I am developing a Medical Database using Access, one of the requirements that I would like included is the ability to incorporate Electronic Signatures on various Forms/Reports (ie Medical Records etc, this is required by Law for Legal reasons when substantiating a Law Suit against the Practice). Although we could carry on printing the Report for the Doctor to Sign, current legislation/Legal Law now accepts encrypted Electronic Signatures via a tablet or the like.
Has anyone incorporated this into Access, perhaps a lead to a website that has products designed for this would be useful.
To Date, i can only find products that integrate with C++ or Visual basic Applications.

 

[JoeCruse]

If you're talking about an actual signature taken on an electronic tablet, then I might be able to steer you in the right direction. I set up an Access app for our Safety department for employee training a couple of years ago. I bought a couple of electronic signature pads from a company called Topaz and incorporated them into the app. When Safety did annual training, all participants are required to sign in for training, and this setup was able to capture the signature digitally for me. I got the setup working quite well, and had a lot of help from Topaz with a sample app they had on their website (unfortunately, after all the work I did, the new Safety person decided she didn't want to use it).

I've not looked at this much since then, but have noticed other digital sig pads out there that are just as good or better. Just run a Google for them.

You can search on my username here to find some postings on this setup, as another user here was trying to do something similar.

Good luck.

 

[AussiePom]

Joe thanx for the info , i will do the search as you suggested, i have done google search and found a couple of things that may be of intrest, i will look at Topaz as well, thankyou again

 

[JoeCruse]

We had a vendor in here last year, who calibrates our rail line scales. They had a program set up for their jobs on a laptop, and they had a digital signature pad for clients to sign off jobs with. I liked their pad more than our Topaz, but we were already invested.

Good luck.