Anoto Group AB: Breakthrough order of digital pens to the City of Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, September 19th, 2007 – The City of Stockholm has decided to use Anoto’s digital pen and paper technology to improve efficiency within geriatric care in Stockholm. To Anoto Group, this order is worth Euro 215, 000 and it is Anoto’s largest Swedish order ever within forms solutions.

About 15% of the inhabitants in Stockholm are above the age of 65, in total some 115, 000 individuals. Two out of ten in this elderly population receive assistance in their homes, including daily services like cooking, shopping, help getting dressed etc. The Anoto pens will be delivered during the next 12 months. They will primarily be used to facilitate documentation and information transfer, in order to secure the quality of geriatric homecare in the city.

- “The City of Stockholm and the elderly will have a win-win-situation”, says Anders Norling, Anoto Group’s CEO. “The use of Anoto’s digital pen and paper technology will guarantee that the service to the elderly is delivered on time with assured quality. Already, some 20 Swedish municipalities – from Kristianstad in the south to Skellefteå in the north have contracts to use the Anoto digital pen system”.

In Solna and Sundbyberg, north of Stockholm, the technology has been in use since 1.5 years back, to improve and secure the quality of geriatric homecare. There, the Anoto pen and paper is used to register the arrival and departure time of the caregiver during each visit and to tick off the services delivered to each patient, on a digital form.

Already in 2002, Anoto commercialized the digital pen and paper system, allowing quick and reliable transmission of handwritten text from paper to digital media. Thanks to new applications, the technology has now been adapted for use within the healthcare sector, where the demands of paper-based documentation are high but also very resource consuming.

- “With this order, the City of Stockholm will cover the entire process from resource planning to documentation and reporting”, says Mats Eklund, head of resource planning in the sector of geriatric care and homecare at TietoEnator Sweden. “Thanks to our co-operation with Anoto’s Swedish partner Catrel AB and other suppliers, we have now been entrusted to deliver an overall long-term mobile IT-solution to the City of Stockholm.




För mer information:

Anders Norling, CEO
Anoto Group AB
+46 733 45 14 98

Mats Blom, CFO
Anoto Group AB
+46 733 45 12 48

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