Hamburg University Hospital in Eppendorf ensures legal compliance by protecting patients' files with qualified time stamps as required by the Signature Act
Legally compliant technology guarantees long-term protection through AuthentiDate, an officially accredited provider
Düsseldorf, Hamburg – November 25, 2008
Hamburg University Hospital in Eppendorf, one of the leading university hospitals in Germany, is also one of the first to begin protecting patients' files using technologies that comply with the Signature Act and have been officially approved. The hospital will begin applying timestamp technology that offers the best long-term protection that is currently available in Germany to protect against tampering or unauthorized changes.
The university hospital is going to freeze several million individual documents and give them sound legal protection using qualified time stamps, which is absolutely necessary for creating the secure, long-term protection needed for electronic archiving. Since AuthentiDate is an accredited provider, a review of the protection is guaranteed by law for thirty years.
The digitized patient files vary greatly in size. Depending on the patient, the files may contain only a few documents or a large number of individual documents, such as doctor's letters, laboratory findings, endoscopy results, medical reports, etc.
In order to reduce the number of qualified time stamps needed, Hamburg University Hospital in Eppendorf combines the individual documents into so-called clusters. This enables a high level of cost efficiency without having to forego guaranteed legal compliance.
By using qualified time stamps from the officially accredited provider AuthentiDate, it is possible to ensure that no documents can be changed, added or deleted unnoticed after the patients' files are written up. The qualified time stamp from AuthentiDate meets the Signature Act's highest possible security level. Thus the integrity of the frozen data at the time that the time stamp is created also ensures that it can legally be used as evidence in court.
About AuthentiDate International AG & AuthentiDate Deutschland GmbH
AuthentiDate (Düsseldorf) is the inventor of the centralized, qualified mass signature and one of the leading providers within the international signature market. The signature and IT-security specialist has been a pioneer for years and is influencing the signature market with its innovations.
More than 50% of the German health insurance companies and international companies and organizations, such as DPD, EnBw, HAYS, Klinikum Braunschweig, SOLVAY Chemicals und TÜV Rheinland have been using AuthentiDate signature products successfully for many years.
AuthentiDate technologies meet the strict requirements of the German Signature Law and the European Signature Directive. AuthentiDate International AG is accredited certification service provider by the Federal Network Agency and runs a Trust Center in compliance with the German Signature Law.
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Judith Balfanz
VP Marketing
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