Thanks Kevin,
The major benefits of this is that you can see patients fully telemedicine and they can sign documents remotely and directly into the chart witnessed by the user. It is very time, server space, and cost efficient and requires no 3rd party signing app.
Before, the best solution was a wet signature with a scanner which is still supported but suffers from not being tele-friendly, cumbersome, and takes a lot of server space. We keep that workflow for certain patients that this works the best for.
We have many, many more upgrades to the VA VistA system beyond this one.
-- IV