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Docusign for Life Sciences

Operate more efficiently while meeting compliance requirements

Manage your agreements in the ever-changing regulatory landscape of life sciences. Docusign IAM helps you automate workflows and connect your entire agreement process while using AI to search and summarise agreements. Increase efficiency, get to market faster and keep your business moving forward.

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Advance your goals

  • Remove friction from your 21 CFR Part 11 compliance

    Simplify contracts, approvals and agreements while reducing regulatory risk. Life sciences organizations have been compliantly managing digital agreements with Docusign since 2015.

  • Get drugs and devices to market faster without compromising quality

    Streamline your processes to accelerate product development and commercialization for drugs and devices.

  • Uplevel your customer experience

    Enhance your interactions with patients, physicians, researchers and vendors by enabling them to complete agreements in an accessible, secure way.

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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, doctors, partners and employees.

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

  • Research and clinical development
    • Preclinical and clinical development

    • Clinical trial enrollment

    • Regulatory submissions

    • Investigator onboarding and site initiation

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  • Manufacturing and quality
    • GxP document management

    • SOPs, batch records, and more

    • Supplier qualification and onboarding

    • CMO and technology transfer agreements

  • Commercial effectiveness
    • Sales contracting

    • Market access agreements

    • HCP engagement and speaker programs

    • Patient assistance and reimbursement

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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 KeithTechnical 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."

    Author Dewey Phan
    Dewey PhanDirector 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 SivananthanQuality 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"

    Author Daniel Tehrani
    Daniel TehraniVice President of IT, ScribeAmerica
A notification in Docusign eSignature prompts a user to sign an agreement. eSignature is part of our life sciences module.

Life sciences module: boost efficiency and support compliance

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.

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

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Docusign for life sciences FAQs

  • In the life sciences industry, electronic signatures are used to streamline agreements. Pharmaceutical organizations use e-signatures for clinical trial enrollment, supplier contracts and more to accelerate the development and delivery of therapeutics 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.

  • Docusign IAM empowers life sciences organizations to transform agreements from bottlenecks to strategic drivers across the entire value chain, accelerating the journey of life-saving therapeutics from R&D into manufacturing and through commercialization. By leveraging a single, extensible platform to manage all end-to-end agreement processes with unparalleled scale and trust, life sciences organizations see a 40% reduction in personnel time per agreement, a 19% reduction in compliance incidents, and a 95% improvement in data quality. Our unmatched ecosystem of 1,000+ integrations and robust APIs enables life sciences organizations to reduce risk, maintain compliance with evolving regulations, and ultimately unleash the power of their agreements for growth, innovation, and efficiency.

Docusign IAM is the agreement platform your business needs

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