DocuSign, the global standard for digital transaction management (DTM), and Exostar, an innovative information technology company offering cloud-based solutions that enable secure, cost-effective business-to-business collaboration, announced a new partnership to empower life sciences and healthcare organisations to automate manual, paper-based processes with faster, more secure, and fully-compliant all digital document workflows.

With DocuSign’s DTM platform and industry-leading eSignature solution integrated into Exostar’s Life Sciences Identity Hub, members of the Exostar community can accelerate critical business processes where documents are exchanged and completed, including clinical trial recruitment and reporting, writing and filling prescriptions, and more.

Exostar and DocuSign help organisations of all sizes collaborate in the digital world to accelerate speed to results with:Increased Security and Compliance Meet government, industry, and corporate regulations for privacy and security while capturing a legally binding audit trail for every transaction.

Reduced Costs Eliminate the costs of printing, faxing, scanning and overnighting documents, physical document storage, and the manual rekeying of data from paper documents by going fully digital.

Improved Patient Outcomes Accelerate clinical trials and other research and development initiatives to bring treatments to market faster while empowering administrators, healthcare providers, and patients to conveniently electronically sign anything, anytime, anywhere, on any device. Securely.

“Our partnership with DocuSign lets organisations and individuals in our life science and healthcare community access DocuSign’s innovative one account, one login eSignature solution,” says Daniel Pfeifle, Exostar’s vice president of sales and marketing. “DocuSign’s solution perfectly complements the one account, one credential, single sign-on user experience of our Life Sciences Identity Hub. As a result, Exostar community members now can DocuSign documents seamlessly, securely, and compliantly anytime, anywhere, on any device to truly unleash the power of collaboration across organisational and geographic boundaries.”

“We’re pleased to have healthcare and life sciences leader Exostar join The DocuSign Global Trust Network,” says Glenn Griffin, vice president of business development, DocuSign. “Exostar’s Life Sciences Identity Hub is a game-changer for the industry, enabling powerful collaboration to advance research, treatment and patient care. Our joint offering will further enable organisations large and small to develop new solutions for the market while protecting sensitive information, maintain compliance, and minimise cost.”

DocuSign offers bank-grade security and enterprise-grade reliability to empower businesses of all sizes to quickly, easily and securely sign, send, and manage transactions in the cloud. DocuSign is the only open, independent, xDTM standards-based platform for managing all aspects of documented business transactions. DocuSign delivers industry-leading identity management, authentication, forms/data collection, collaboration, workflow automation, digital and electronic signature, payment collection and document retention in the cloud.

Exostar’s Life Sciences Identity Hub is a cloud-based solution delivered as a service. Organisations connect once, eliminating redundant infrastructure while reducing on-boarding and provisioning times from weeks or months to days.  Individuals benefit from single sign-on access, where Exostar’s Secure Access Manager (SAM) authenticates identities and enforces privileges defined by the owners of connected applications and associated documents and information. Nearly 700 life science and healthcare organisations and 15,000 individuals in 50 countries securely collaborate through Exostar’s Life Sciences Identity Hub.