Docusign for Life Sciences
Operate more efficiently while meeting your compliance requirements
Get support to handle the ever-changing regulatory landscape in life sciences.
Digitize 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
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How you can use Docusign
From investigator onboarding to sales agreements, you can do business faster with less risk, lower costs, and better experiences for patients, physicians, 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 enrollment
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 programs
Vendor/supplier contracts
Agency approvals
Ready to modernize your processes?
How life science organizations use Docusign
75% of envelopes completed in less than seven days
"We can have multiple parties post comments, edit and ask questions directly in the document, while tracking changes with a secure, digital audit trail"
Gord Keith
Technical Operations Manager, Thermo Fisher
Delivers life-saving solutions faster
"Not only did we save time and boost employee productivity, but we also helped the environment."
Dewey Phan
Director of corporate quality, BD
97% faster to get final clearance from physicians
"Docusign helps us bring second chances at life in a faster and more compliant way."
Kim Sivananthan
Quality Assurance Specialist, DKMS US
Modernize onboarding
"It’s exciting to see all the different things we can do outside the integration we’re currently using"
Daniel Tehrani
Vice President of IT, ScribeAmerica
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Life sciences module
Support your compliance with the electronic signature practices set forth in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s 21 CFR Part 11.
Our life sciences module has three components: eSignature, SMS authentication, and validation reports.
Featured integrations for life sciences
Extend the impact of your digital investment with digital workflows, authentication and e-signatures with Docusign's integrations with systems you already use.
Docusign for life sciences FAQs
In life sciences, people use electronic signatures to streamline their agreements.
Pharmaceutical organizations 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 commercialization.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 customizable 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 among multiple parties and system access needs to extend to internal and external parties. This module is absolutely critical for any life sciences organization that handles electronic records.With Docusign eSignature, you can remove friction from your 21 CFR Part 11 compliance efforts, get drugs and devices to market faster without compromising quality and improve your customer experience.
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Make your business faster, simpler and more cost-efficient with electronic agreements.
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