Getting a functional virtual office up and running takes some time. Time that you probably don’t feel you have right now. It might be tempting to take shortcuts so you can get back to helping your clients.
Some shortcuts do make sense, but others, like sending PDFs of forms you already have instead of building them in Hush™ Secure Forms, can cause problems that will cost you more time down the line.
If you have a Hushmail for Healthcare account with e-signatures, then you get at least five web forms in Hush™ Secure Forms. That means you can build five unique forms of any length with our form builder.
It might sound like a lot of work to build a form, but it’s not. If you have a simple form that just needs a signature, it should take you only a few minutes to set up.
The benefits you receive from using a form you’ve built with the form builder are significant. In today’s post, we’ll compare sending a PDF versus building a form. Then, we’ll give you the steps to quickly create a form you already have.
After reading this post, sending a PDF might not seem like such a worthwhile shortcut.
If you’re planning to send PDFs of forms you already have on hand, consider the time this will cost your clients. They’ll have to print the PDF, sign it, scan it, and email it back. That’s a lot of steps to sign a form, and that’s if everything goes as planned. How many times have you gone to print something just to find out your ink is low or you’re out of paper? Many people don’t even have printers or scanners in their homes.
The only benefit of sending a PDF is the small amount of time you might save at the beginning when you upload and send the form.
Here are some other downsides to sending a PDF:
Don’t let the term “building” put you off. You don’t have to know anything about code, or anything technical for that matter. You just need to drag and drop fields with your mouse or trackpad. You’re “building” a form much as you might build a tower of blocks.
Build your form by dragging and dropping.
It couldn’t be simpler, and the benefits of using a form you build yourself are many:
Your forms work seamlessly with Hushmail email, allowing your clients to do everything in one place. There’s no need for your client to download and attach files or start a new email. You can be assured that your clients will have an easy time signing and returning a completed form, which will arrive with an attached PDF that you can upload to your EHR or billing system.
If you have a simple form needing only an e-signature, the process of setting one up shouldn’t take more than a few minutes.
Paste your content into a Formatted text field.
The above steps are a good way to quickly build a simple form, such as a consent form, that your clients can sign.
If your form requires additional fields, you can drag and drop Short and Long text fields into your form, then use the different types of fields listed on the left side of your form builder to make the form easy to fill out:
But this is for when you have a little time to experiment with design. If all you need is a consent form, you can prepare a simple form quickly so it looks good and collects the signatures you need.
Don’t succumb to the shortcut of sending a PDF. Building a form is worth the little extra time upfront, and your clients will appreciate the time it saves them.
Building a form is pretty simple. However, if you want to forgo the process altogether, we offer an affordable form building service that will take on the task for you. You can reach out to Customer Care to find out more.
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Setting up a virtual practice in a hurry might tempt you to cut corners by sending PDFs of your forms instead of building them with our form builder. Although PDFs might seem like a good shortcut, they can cause problems that will cost you more time down the line. Building a simple form should only take you a few minutes, and will result in a much more pleasant experience for your clients when they sign your forms. Related posts: |