PRP Insights: Electronic Signatures Clarified
A practitioner’s signature is an important component of a prescription that assists registrants in determining the authenticity of a prescription. With electronic prescribing software becoming more commonplace, registrants are seeing an increase in electronically generated prescriptions and oftentimes, these are signed with electronic signatures. As registrants may be more accustomed to receiving prescriptions that are signed pen-to-paper, there have been some questions around the acceptability of this practice. In this article, we hope to provide some clarity on the requirements around electronic signatures.