Data-processing solution for medical service makes patient data immediately accessible nationwide.

When natural disasters such as avalanches, flooding and storms result in physical injuries, emergency services have to mobilize quickly. Not only do they have to provide medical treatment, but they also have to make decisions on what clinic to send the patient to as well as what means of transportation to use.

In order to speed up the efficiency and accuracy of this process, the mobile medical stations of the Swiss Army have begun to use Digital Pen and Paper technology from Anoto to process patient data.

The benefits are many. Medics can already at the site of the accident enter patient data into a central system. The patient can then be sent directly to a hospital with confirmed capacity to receive the patient. As patient data is made available to the hospital more or less instantaneously, medical staff can make suitable preparations before the patient arrives. In the past, the medical teams in the field first had to write down patient data manually and then enter it into the central information system by typing it. This method was not only very time consuming and work intensive, but it was also error prone and prolonged the entire rescue operation. Today, the process is completed in seconds and is much more reliable. During a large-scale disaster, the time saved on one patient directly benefits another.

The data-processing solution used by the Swiss Army’s medical services has been developed by Anoto’s German partner TCC Products GmbH and is based on Anoto Digital Pen and Paper technology.

Read the press release in German here

For more information about TCC Products GmbH:

http://www.tcc-products.de/DigitalPenSolutions/Seiten/default.aspx?PR1