Performance Management - Records
Questions and answers
Yes. The requirements dealing with electronic signatures are:
- the signal or symbol must be unique to the signer
- the "signature" must be capable of being verified and must be linked to the data being transmitted, including the effective date
- control features must be in place to insure the authenticity of data on the form, including the electronic signature
- such controls must provide reasonable assurance that deliberate or inadvertent manipulation, modification or loss of data on the electronically stored form is detected