The Authenticator represents a participant who has attested to the accuracy of the document, but who does not have privileges to legally authenticate the document (see Legal Authenticator). An example would be a authenticator R:0..* resident physician who sees a patient and dictates a note, then later signs it. A clinical document can have zero to many authenticators. While electronic signatures are not captured the authentications require that a document has been signed manually or electronically by the responsible individual. An authenticator has a required authenticator.time indicating the time of authentication, and a required authenticator.signatureCode, indicating that a signature has been obtained and is on file.
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