Healthcare

Collect consent securely and compliantly

Patient paperwork should never compromise privacy or the waiting-room experience. SignTheDoc lets practices collect consent and intake securely — at home or on arrival — with HIPAA-aligned handling throughout.

The challenge

What slows Healthcare teams down

Paper intake forms slow down the front desk

Sensitive health data is exposed in transit

Telehealth visits need consent captured remotely

How SignTheDoc helps

A better way to sign

Intake before arrival

Patients complete forms from home so appointments start on time.

Encrypted end to end

Health data is protected at rest and in transit, aligned with HIPAA requirements.

Built for telehealth

Capture consent remotely with a verifiable, timestamped record.

HIPAA
aligned data handling
15 min
saved per patient
256-bit
encryption
How it works

From upload to signed

  1. 1Send intake and consent forms ahead of the visit
  2. 2Patient completes them securely on any device
  3. 3Signed forms attach to the patient record
  4. 4Access is logged and audit-ready

Common Healthcare documents

Patient intake forms
Consent to treat
Release of information
Telehealth agreements
Getting it right

What Healthcare teams need to watch

Business associate agreement first

A signed BAA must be in place before any protected health information reaches the platform — not after a pilot. There is no official HIPAA certification for software, so the meaningful questions are whether a vendor signs a BAA and what safeguards they implement.

Minimum necessary

The minimum necessary standard applies to collection, not only disclosure. Digital forms make adding fields trivially easy; review each one against a specific clinical or administrative purpose.

Capacity and proxies

Model the signer role explicitly where a parent, guardian, or healthcare proxy signs. "Signed by Jane Doe, parent/guardian, on behalf of patient" is a defensible record; the patient's name on a signature block when the patient is seven is not.

How to start well

What the healthcare teams with the best results did first.

Sign the BAA and complete a security risk assessment before anything else
Start with general intake, which carries the least clinical sensitivity
Test every form with a screen reader and offer your patient population's languages
Keep a genuine paper path — digital-only is not acceptable for a clinical practice

Connects with your stack

The tools healthcare teams most often connect. Anything else works via the API or Zapier.

EpicCernerathenahealthDrChronoMicrosoft 365Box
★★★★★
"Patients arrive with everything already signed. Our front desk finally breathes."
AV
Dr. Alan Voss
Clinic Director, Cascade Health
Common questions

Healthcare, specifically

Yes, on Business plans. It must be executed before PHI reaches the platform.

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