Anoto, a developer of digital pen and paper technology, announced today that its digital writing solutions are increasingly being utilized by healthcare providers to input structured data into a patient's EHR.
This utilization results in the adoption of meaningful use-certified EHRs across a range of facilities, including hospitals, ambulatory care facilities and physician practices.
Anoto operates through a network of partners that work with healthcare organizations as they adopt electronic health records. Anoto technology includes the Anoto digital pen and the Anoto dot pattern. The digital pen is Bluetooth-enabled and contains a digital camera at the tip of the pen that takes pictures at 70 times per second the speed of handwriting. When medical staff fills out paper forms, the handwritten information is recorded onto a chip in the digital pen and then transferred via a USB docking station or through Bluetooth transmission.
"This technology is a good option since it doesn't force a new behavior; you're simply leveraging something familiar — pen and paper," said Pietro Parravicini, senior vice president area manager for Anoto. "By giving practitioners a solution that is both mobile and easy to use to collect and enter required patient data, meaningful use can evolve more naturally as part of standard practices."
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This utilization results in the adoption of meaningful use-certified EHRs across a range of facilities, including hospitals, ambulatory care facilities and physician practices.
Anoto operates through a network of partners that work with healthcare organizations as they adopt electronic health records. Anoto technology includes the Anoto digital pen and the Anoto dot pattern. The digital pen is Bluetooth-enabled and contains a digital camera at the tip of the pen that takes pictures at 70 times per second the speed of handwriting. When medical staff fills out paper forms, the handwritten information is recorded onto a chip in the digital pen and then transferred via a USB docking station or through Bluetooth transmission.
"This technology is a good option since it doesn't force a new behavior; you're simply leveraging something familiar — pen and paper," said Pietro Parravicini, senior vice president area manager for Anoto. "By giving practitioners a solution that is both mobile and easy to use to collect and enter required patient data, meaningful use can evolve more naturally as part of standard practices."
Learn more about Anoto.
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