Anoto, a leader in digital writing technology, announced that it has won the 'Technology & IT to improve Patient Safety' award at the annual Patient Safety Award dinner held at the prestigious Grosvenor House Hotel in London. Anoto won the award for the work it has done with the Gwent Frailty Programme in Wales.
The awards were presented at a black tie event attended by over 1,000 leaders in the patient safety industry. The awards brought together both today's key players in the industry and the ones to watch in this ever growing sector.
The Gwent Frailty Programme allows those in the region to remain living ‘happily independent' as long as it is safe for them to do so. People in the Gwent Frailty Programme receive safe and seamless health and social care services, provided in their own homes. To achieve this, the Gwent Frailty Programme has deployed 300 Anoto digital pens in the first phase of a community healthcare programme to improve the management of frail citizens in their homes and reducing the costs and stress of hospital admissions.
"The Gwent Frailty Programme is aimed to improve patients' well being by allowing them to be cared for in a familiar and comfortable setting, which allows them to lead as normal and familiar a life as possible," explains Robert Bakewell, general manager of Anoto Ltd. "The Gwent Frailty programme utilises digital pens as a data capture system, which digitises patient notes as they are written. The community nursing team is able to transmit the notes back to the head office via Bluetooth connectivity by using Blackberry smartphones."
The solution has saved the programme more than £600,000 per annum, saved carers an average of ten minutes time per patient visit, and has ensured that patients receive the care they are expecting to in the programme.
"The project has been hugely successful and the recognition at the Patient Safety Awards highlights this success further and underlines the importance of the digital pen technology in the community healthcare setting," says Bakewell.
About the Patient Safety Awards
The Patient Safety Awards are organised by Health Service Journal and Nursing Times magazines and is part of EMAP.
About Anoto Group
Anoto Group AB is a global leader in digital writing solutions, which enables fast and reliable transmission of handwriting into a digital format. Anoto operates worldwide through a global partner network that delivers user-friendly digital writing solutions for efficient capture, transmission, distribution and storage of data. Anoto is currently in use across multiple business segments, e.g. healthcare, banking and finance, transportation and logistics and education. The Anoto Group has over 100 employees and is headquartered in Lund (Sweden). The company also has offices in Basingstoke, Guildford and Wetherby (UK), Amsterdam (NL), Boston (US) and Tokyo (Japan). The Anoto share is traded on the Small Cap list of NASDAQ OMX Stockholm under the ticker ANOT.