The News General DM News McDougall Scientific signs up to biopharma digital signing standard
15 October 2009
McDougall Scientific is the latest biopharmaceutical supplier to sign up to the global SAFE-BioPharma digital identity and signature standard.
Digital signing, used for secure paperless transactions, eliminates the time and costs associated with printing, handling and storing paper documents.
McDougall Scientific is a Toronto-based pharmaceutical contract research organisation (CRO), providing compliant technical backbones for clinical research, covering statistics, data management and document management.
McDougall has joined the SAFE-BioPharma Association, a non-profit association that created and manages the global SAFE-BioPharma digital identity and signature standard for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. McDougall is the first CRO to join the Association.
The SAFE-BioPharma digital identity and signature standard is now used by virtually every big biopharmaceutical company for identity management and for digital signing.
"We plan to introduce SAFE-BioPharma digital signatures to our clients and help them move to fully electronic document management systems," said Janet McDougall, president of McDougall Scientific.
As a member of SAFE-BioPharma, McDougall employees will be able to apply secure signatures digitally to electronic documents they are dealing with on behalf of clients.
