Scottish Widows introduces electronic GP reports

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Scottish Widows has introduced electronic General Practitioner (GP) reports into its protection policy underwriting process to make it simpler and quicker to obtain customers' medical information from their GP practice.

In partnership with Niche Health, the software provider of iGPRTM, electronic GP reports digitise the current inefficient paper-based process for all parties. Scottish Widow's new system is encrypted to NHS standards to ensure that customer sensitive data is "transmitted to the highest security standards", Scottish Widows said.  It takes a significantly shorter time for a GP to produce a report, with the software delivering an automatically redacted version. This ensures that only the relevant data needed for underwriting purposes is provided, and affords the GP the option to furth...

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