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Docusign for life sciences

Operate more efficiently while meeting compliance requirements

Get support to handle the ever-changing regulatory landscape in life sciences.

Digitise and connect your entire agreement process with Docusign to increase efficiency and productivity, get to market faster and keep your business moving forward.

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Advance your goals

  • Avoid issues with 21 CFR Part 11 compliance

    Simplify contracts, approvals and agreements while reducing regulatory risk. Life sciences organisations have been ensuring digital agreement compliance with Docusign since 2015.

  • Get medicines and devices to market faster without compromising quality

    Streamline your processes to accelerate product development and commercialisation for medicines and devices.

  • Enhance your customer experience

    Improve interaction with patients, doctors, researchers and vendors by enabling them to complete agreements in an accessible, secure way.

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How you can use Docusign

From onboarding investigators to sales agreements, you can do business faster with less risk, lower costs and better experiences for patients, doctors, partners and employees.

Meet the needs of the changing life sciences landscape with our purpose-built bundle of products for our life sciences customers.

  • Drug development

    • Preclinical development

    • Clinical trials

    • Patient consent and enrolment

    • Site initiation

    • Regulatory submissions

  • Manufacturing

    • Batch records

    • SOPs

    • Quality agreements

    • Safety inspections

    • Recall notifications

  • Sales and marketing

    • HCP speaker agreements

    • HCP sponsor agreements

    • Order processing

    • Sample tracking

    • Sales agreements

  • Discovery

    • Sponsored research

    • Investigator-initiated research

    • Laboratory results

  • Distribution

    • Partnership and distribution programmes

    • Vendor/supplier contracts

    • Agency approvals

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A notification in Docusign eSignature prompts a user to sign an agreement. eSignature is part of our life sciences module.

Life sciences module

Support your compliance with the electronic signature practices set forth in the U.S. FDA's 21 CFR Part 11 and the MHRA's GxP Data Integrity Guidance.

Our life sciences module has three components: eSignature, SMS authentication and validation reports.

Additional Docusign products for life sciences

  • eSignature

    Securely send and sign agreements from virtually anywhere and any device while maintaining a detailed audit trail.

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  • Identify

    Remotely verify signatory identity for your important agreements.

  • CLM

    Accelerate contracting with tools supporting document generation, negotiation, storage and analytics.

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Extend the impact of your digital investment with digital workflows, authentication and e-signatures with Docusign integrations for systems you already use.

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Docusign for life sciences FAQs

  • In life sciences, people use electronic signatures to streamline their agreements.

    Pharmaceutical organisations use e-signatures for clinical trial onboarding, vendor contracts and more to accelerate the development and delivery of treatments to market.

    Medical device manufacturers use e-signatures for clinical testing, sales contracts, service agreements and more to accelerate product development and commercialisation.

  • Docusign eSignature was the first e-signature tool to enable compliance with 21 CFR Part 11. Recently, we announced a new package designed to add functionality for life sciences organisations without jeopardising compliance.

    To meet the needs laid out by our cutting-edge life sciences customers, Docusign released a new package of features: the Life Sciences Pro package. It includes the Docusign CFR Part 11 Module, Validator for Life Sciences and SMS Authentication. In the same way that Docusign was the first to offer Part 11 compliance, we’re the first to bundle features like this together for a new generation of customers.

    The Docusign Part 11 module provides a high-availability, high-security and highly customisable solution to maintain compliance with regulations domestically and globally. The module is designed to be incorporated as part of an open system solution in which there is electronic communication between multiple parties, and system access needs to extend to internal and external parties. This module is absolutely critical for any life sciences organisation that handles electronic records.

    Learn More About Docusign Life Sciences Modules for 21 CFR Part 11

  • With Docusign eSignature, you can avoid issues with 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, get medicines and devices to market faster without compromising quality and improve your customer experience.

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