Digital pen and paper could be used to modernize the time-consuming, manual task of completing patient observation charts. Information recorded by the pen would be transmitted to a central server and integrated into an electronic patient record that could be accessed by authorized third parties such as other attending physicians, insurance companies and pharmacies. Nursing staff would use digital pen and paper to record patient observations the way they normally do. Whatever is recorded on the charts would be digitally recorded by the pen, transmitted to the hospitals central server, and could be consulted whenever and wherever the attending physicians required, thereby creating a virtual double of the hard copy
