Faster, more practical and just as secure as a paper document, electronic-consent have been developed since the early 2000s, in particular thanks to the law of June 21st 2004 on confidence in the digital economy.
eConsent now makes it possible to ensure that potential patients or volunteers are fully informed, despite the multitude of information provided, traditionally on paper.
Main benefits
A law couldn’t be enough to promote this new way of working. Electronic consent has many benefits and is also more environmentally-friendly as it doesn’t require printing or transport:
- It prevents a document from being lost on its way to the recipient.
- It allows you to have only original documents.
- It’s quick to create and set up.
- It avoids errors and allows for faster and remote verification.
- It provides better information for participants to enable them to make informed decisions through interactive multimedia elements.
- It ensures greater exchanges reliability, traceability and security.
- It is perfectly suited to decentralized and multi-centers studies.
- It reduces costs because once the contract is drawn up, it only takes two or three minutes to complete the signatures, ensures its sending and reception by the various recipients.
It is increasingly coupled with the use of teleconsultation and images, sound, video and tick-boxes to facilitate the consent process and remote participant’s understanding. The eConsent provides easy access to legal information and various patient concerns, improving patient empowerment, retention and compliance, especially in decentralized studies
It has been boosted by the COVID 19 pandemic. Used worldwide, the eConsent is becoming the standard for clinical research
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