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Even as medical records have moved to the cloud, the actual moment a patient agrees to treatment often still comes down to pen, paper, and a filing cabinet. That's starting to change, as regulators in various countries loosen restrictions on cloud-based record-keeping and digital signatures for healthcare. Taiwan offers a useful case study of how regulatory reform can accelerate digital transformation in healthcare

For decades, a handwritten signature on a form was the weakest link in the chain. Easy to forge. Easy to lose. Hard to verify after the fact. When hospitals went digital, ordinary e-signatures seemed like an obvious upgrade. They were faster to collect, cheaper to store, and impossible to misplace. But in solving one problem, they created another.