In an excellent study into the use of digital pen technology, Solano County in California USA has implemented a trial how Solano County Public Health could process the assesment and vaccination to achieve the benchmark of 350 people per hour in case of a flu pandemic.
The trial allowed 267 patients to complete their own health assesment forms including known allergies, name, address etc. This electronically updated the patient database and allowed nurses to swiftly respond to the most urgent cases by alerting them based on a set of selected criteria.
The ability for patients to record their own data and have that automatical convert into data meant huge time savings as manual data entry was not required. It was also shown that patients recording their own details that weren't transcribed by a third party resulted in fewer typographical errors.
The ability for the Digital Pen & Paper system to identify the patients needing treatment the fastest, the reduced data entry time and the reduced error rate of the data means that Solano County Public Health can meet the benchmark for patient treatment in the case of a flu pandemic.
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