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Building A System For Managing Clinical Pathways Using Digital Pens, Linda L. Dawson, Virginia Plummer, Stephen Weeding, Terri Harlem, Bob Ribbons, David Waterhouse
Building A System For Managing Clinical Pathways Using Digital Pens, Linda L. Dawson, Virginia Plummer, Stephen Weeding, Terri Harlem, Bob Ribbons, David Waterhouse
Associate Professor Linda Dawson
Background: A research team from Monash University and Peninsula Health, Victoria is undertaking a trial of digital pen and paper technology for clinical pathway management. Digital pen and paper allows for the capture of images of handwritten documents using an embedded camera in the pen which is matched with special patterns of dots on the paper. These digitised images can be uploaded to a database for analysis. Objectives: Clinical pathways have been adopted in most Australian hospitals to document and manage multidisciplinary care across a variety of acute care environments. Analysis of the information collected in paper-based clinical pathway documents …