Vodafone Product Summary | Digital Pen
Digital Pen from VodafoneUsing Digital Pen from Vodafone is helping clinicians significantly reduce admin to allow more time and visits spent in local communities or patients’ homes. Front line careThe need for NHS organisations to do more with less, while still delivering exceptional quality of care, is putting huge pressure on healthcare workers at all levels. Monitoring and reporting on key processes, patients’ needs, and quality of care is also increasing the administrative burden, taking clinicians away from front line care provision and focusing their attention on data collection and input.
Get users up to speed fastOur Digital Pen hardly changes existing working practices so there’s less resistance to adopting this way of working, which can accelerate a radical change in working and reduction of costs.
Your healthcare professionals simply complete forms, surveys or reports using their Digital Pen. Just seconds later their handwriting will have been converted into an electronic document that is transmitted using a mobile device, stored centrally (not on the device) or used to automatically update patient records.
Increase accountabilityPaper forms and records can now be stored, shared, audited and archived. As well as making patient information even more accessible, it also helps professionals to collaborate on cases and create a more joined-up approach. Digital Pen from Vodafone offers a failsafe for data capture because healthcare professionals can leave behind a completed hard copy of their document knowing that a copy, complete with signatures, is already electronically available.
Flexibility built inDigital Pen from Vodafone comes with the ability to customise existing templated documents and create totally new ones. And for even greater efficiency gains, Digital Pen can be integrated with your ERP system so that users can create and print forms that are pre-populated with selected patient information.
Benefits
Reduced administration costs through simple capture of quality data
Improved productivity
Better informed and faster decision making
Integrates with most healthcare applications
Easy data storage compliance
Rapid results mean more time with patients
Features
Centralised management interface oversees pens and usage
Print processor allows on-demand printing
Electronic files can be instantly created
Vodafone Product Summary | Digital Pen
Digital Pen in detailDigital Pen’s minute infrared camera and microscopic pattern of tracking dots allows the pen to record your handwriting as digital data. By docking the pen with a PC or pairing it with a Bluetooth or 3G-enabled mobile device, you can transmit the data back to a central server. If any information is missing you will be alerted immediately. Once received handwriting recognition is automatically performed and your electronic document can be instantly created as PDF, MS Word and XML documents. These can be transmitted and integrated into business applications within 20 seconds of being completed.
It consists of three main web-based modules: the design tool, an administration portal, and a form viewer or editing portal which gives you the opportunity to confirm forms before outputting any data.
Focus on what’s importantWhy waste time re-keying information into your central systems when you could use Digital Pen from Vodafone to update records remotely? With increasing pressure to get more done in less time, this solution allows healthcare professionals to update centrally held records as they go.
Flexible data options Users choose how they want to send information back, either via mobile device or by docking the pen with a PC back at their office. There’s an option for every kind of worker.
Extend productivity This solution comes with options to help extend your productivity even further. By integrating your digital forms with your existing ERP system, patient data can be extracted before a visit, then updated seamlessly once your digital records have been sent back to your central system. It’s a great way to ensure your core records are kept up to date and that all clinicians and admin staff are using the same information – a must when it comes to delivering a joined-up patient experience.
Tailor your own applicationsDigital Pen from Vodafone combines all the tools you need to customise standard electronic forms or to create completely new applications – everything from handwriting recognition software to your print production system. There’s no better way to maximise the value of your investment.
Digital Pen
EPR /Database Data stored in electronic
patient record
Print on demandForm printed onto pre-populated or
blank normal paper
TransmitInformation sent
electronically via mobile
IntegrateHandwriting converted into data and documents
Pen and paperUser completes form
Feedback to user and submission of data to EPR circa 10 seconds
Vodafone Product Summary | Digital Pen
Service LifecycleWe support your infrastructure with a comprehensive range of services. Our approach provides expert assurance throughout the entire lifecycle of your product, and can be configured to meet the individual needs of your organisation.
Next stepsDigital Pen from Vodafone offers a simple way to translate written notes into a digital format that can be stored, shared or used to update existing information.
Its simplicity allows healthcare professionals to focus their attention on caring for patients rather than learning a whole new technology. They can continue using traditional working practices – with a modern twist – that reduce admin time and extend patient-facing time instead.
To find out more about how Digital Pen from Vodafone can give you back the time to care, please contact your Vodafone Account Manager, or call us on 0845 894 2461www.vodafone.co.uk/health
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