WESTBOROUGH, Mass.,
Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/
-- Anoto Group, the creator of Digital Pen and Paper
technology, today announced that its flexible and easy-to-use
mobile solutions are being adopted by a wide range of healthcare
organizations throughout the globe to provide instant access to
information.
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Anoto operates through a network of specialized partners that
work with healthcare organizations that, due to varied
circumstances, continue to rely on paper to capture information.
Since data collected by the pen becomes instantly available, the
solution provides a way for physicians to better collaborate and
consult with other healthcare professionals, when and where they
need to, translating into better healthcare for all. There is also
no physical barrier to the communication between the doctor and the
patient that can result with other, more bulky, kinds of
technologies such as tablets and laptops.
In addition, the costs associated with training and workflow
interruption are dramatically reduced when using a data capture
method that is as familiar and intuitive as a pen. For instance, in
the UK market, the National Health Service needs to reach a return
on investment (ROI) within 18 months on any new technology
deployment. Therefore, digital pen technology has been embraced as
an ideal solution since it is quick to implement and quick to
deliver tangible benefits.
"We continue to find that paper use in healthcare is prevalent
universally, particularly for those in remote locations or under
pressure to provide accelerated ROI," said Stein Revelsby,
CEO of Anoto. "With Anoto digital pen technology, physicians
can digitize information simply by just changing the pen they are
using. Better collaboration with patients and healthcare
professionals occurs as a result of the information becoming
immediately available."
A recent survey conducted by Anoto looking at paper use in
healthcare, found that more than half of respondents still use
paper as a primary source for tracking information within their
organizations' daily activities, citing reasons such as:
- Paper is too embedded in the culture;
- Technology adoption is too expensive; and
- Switching to an electronic system requires too much training
and would disrupt care delivery.
In addition, 63% of respondents spend anywhere from 25% to more
than 75% of their time at work drafting or processing
paperwork.
Digital pen technology's mobility, ease of use and instantaneous
data access has resulted in varied deployments worldwide. Some
examples include:
- Digitized Maternity Notes in the UK – Digital pen
technologies can be used for digitizing maternity notes, as seen
recently by the Perinatal Institute, whose digital maternity notes
could potentially save £16 million per annum, whilst freeing up
even more time for patient care.
- Meaningful Use in the United
States – Digital pen technology is increasingly being
utilized by healthcare providers to input structured data into a
patient's electronic health record (EHR) directly from paper. The
result is the adoption of Meaningful Use certified EHRs across a
range of areas including hospitals, ambulatory care facilities and
physician practices.
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Assessments for Wounded
Warriors –TBIs are a serious consequence for soldiers in combat
zones. Anoto digital pen technology is used to conduct the TBI
test, providing detailed test results, which improves assessments
and creates a detailed digital record to which clinicians can get
immediate access and use for long-term tracking.
- Telehealth – Anoto digital pens can be used in
conjunction with mobile phone technologies for care in community
initiatives, such as the Aneurin Bevan Health Board Frailty
Program, which has saved the health board £600,000 per year.
- Digital Pain Diary Brings Relief to Palliative Home Care in
Sweden - Patients experienced
an improvement in the contact with their caregivers and felt that
they were participating more in their own care. The technology
allowed patients to combine the comfort of being cared for in their
own homes with real-time monitoring and control of their pain
levels.
- Greater Dedicated Time to Patients in UK – 800
clinicians within the Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
use Anoto's digital pen technologies, which allow the Foundation
Trust to spend more time with patients without increasing staff
levels.
- Breast Cancer Screenings in France – Digital pen technology makes it
possible to speed up readings and returning interpretations of
bi-annual mammograms. The solution helps to eliminate errors by
non-medical staff when entering data. It has also resulted in
significant cost and time savings. The average time sent per
mammogram has been reduced from three hours to 20 minutes.
- Rehabilitation in Switzerland – Physicians fill out pain
assessments forms and the information instantly transferred to
electronic data base. Data is now available faster, resulting in
more time for care and increased security and accuracy of
information.
- Jamaica Cleft Pallet Surgery – Digital pens are
being used to document the efficacy of preventive dental care in
Jamaica in order to drive expanded
funding of worldwide programs from global health
organizations.
The digital pen looks feels and writes like a normal ballpoint
pen. However, it contains an integrated digital camera, an advanced
image microprocessor and a mobile communications device for
wireless connection. Using a digital pen on a surface covered with
Anoto's patented dot pattern, users can capture, store and then
securely send the handwriting, enabling them to instantaneously
convert ink to digital data. Every small area of the pattern has a
unique combination of dots which indicates the exact position of
the digital pen as it moves across the surface. There are so many
unique combinations that if every variant of dots was printed out,
the stack of paper would reach the moon or cover the continents of
Europe and Asia twice over.
About Anoto Group
Anoto Group is the company behind
and world leading in the unique technology for digital pen and
paper, which enables fast and reliable transmission of handwritten
text into a digital format. Anoto operates through a global partner
network that focuses on user-friendly solutions for efficient
capture, transmission and storage of data within different business
segments, e.g. healthcare, bank and finance, transport and
logistics and education. The Anoto Group has around 100 employees
and is headquartered in Lund
(Sweden). The company also has
offices in Guildford and Wetherby (UK), Boston (US) and Tokyo (Japan). The Anoto share is traded on the Small
Cap list of NASDAQ OMX Stockholm under the ticker ANOT. For more
information, please visit: www.anoto.com.
For more information contact:
Karen Pantinas
Davies Murphy Grou
kpantinas@daviesmurphy.com
781-418-2413
SOURCE Anoto Group