And wins BlackBerry 2010 Wireless Leadership Award

HC2010, Birmingham; 29 April 2010: Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has been rewarded for its innovative use of digital pen technology, winning BlackBerry’s annual Wireless Leadership Awards In Orlando this week. Portsmouth has projected estimated annual savings of £220,000 from us-ing the Anoto (www.anoto.com) digital pens and BlackBerry smartphones in combination with the PaperIQ platform from Anoto Platinum partner, DevelopIQ.

The technology has been whole-heartedly embraced by the midwifery team, the first department at the Trust to complete a roll out. Midwives are using the Anoto digital pens to take notes dur-ing consultations with pregnant women in the community, which are then transferred to the en-crypted BlackBerry smartphone via Bluetooth, and then onto the PaperIQ platform installed at the Trust. The solution has been deployed to 130 midwives who work across four hospitals and is integrated with the maternity unit’s patient records system.

Bill Flatman, Director of ICT at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, said; “We took great care to evaluate the benefits and savings that BlackBerry and PaperIQ could bring the maternity depart-ment, and our roll-out of Anoto digital pens is well on the way to realising these. We see huge potential for digital pen technology across not only our Trust, but also throughout the NHS.”

Robert Bakewell, Commercial Director from DevelopIQ, an Anoto partner that targets the health-care sector, added: “This is the second year in a row that our digital pen solution, PaperIQ, has been short-listed for an award which is the equivalent of the Oscars for enterprise BlackBerry applications and to win this year against heavyweight competitiors like of Dell and Xerox is an amazing achievement for our team.”

Following the wider roll out to the midwifery department, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust is planning to extend the use of PaperIQ and Anoto digital pens to the hospital’s accident and emergency department and community nursing later this year.

The winner of the Wireless Leadership Award was announced at the Wireless Enterprise Sympo-sium, the world’s largest annual event for enterprise BlackBerry users, on April 27th, in Orlando.


About Anoto Group AB:
Anoto Group is the company behind and world leading in the unique technology for digital pen and paper, which enables fast and reliable transmission of handwritten text into a digital format. Anoto operates through a global partner network that focuses on user-friendly forms solutions for efficient capture, trans-mission and storage of data within different business segments, e.g. healthcare, bank and finance, trans-port and logistics and education. The Anoto Group has around 110 employees, offices in Lund (head office), Boston and Tokyo. The Anoto share is traded on the Small Cap list of the OMX Nordic Exchange in Stock-holm under the ticker ANOT. For more information: www.anoto.com.

About DevelopIQ:
DevelopIQ is an Anoto Platinum Partner and BlackBerry Elite Partner and the recognised leader in deliver-ing data capture solutions that use Anoto digital pen technology on the BlackBerry smartphone. Its “Pa-perIQ” product is a proven enterprise-class platform for digital pen and paper and has been selected for the largest digital pen contracts to date in Europe. The business has particular sales focus in the health sector and it is the leading provider of digital pen technology to the UK’s National Health Service.

The company was awarded Anoto’s Golden Pen award in 2006 & 2009 and is the only UK-based partner to have won this prestigious award twice. DevelopIQ is also an Elite BlackBerry ISV Partner developing both enterprise and consumer applications for the BlackBerry smartphone. In 2009 it won the Worldwide Black-Berry Developer Challenge with a grand prize of $100,000. DevelopIQ is headquartered in Winchester, UK and is privately funded. For more information, please visit www.DevelopIQ.com or www.PaperIQ.com/freeingtimetocare

About Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust:
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust employs over 6,000 employees and provides a range of acute services mainly across two sites including Queen Alexandra Hospital and St Mary's Hospital. The Queen Alexandra Hospital site has gone through a major redevelopment to create a modern and 'fit for purpose' hospi-tal, which was completed in 2009. This work has been done in partnership with 'The Hospital Company', a consortium of Carillion plc and the Royal Bank of Scotland. The majority of the Trust's acute services are now provided at Queen Alexandra following the opening phase of the new state-of-the-art facilities. The 'Emergency Department' at Queen Alexandra Hospital is one of the busiest in the UK treating in excess of 100,000 patients each year. The 'Medical Assessment Unit' (MAU) and 'Surgical Assessment Unit' (SAU) provide rapid diagnostic assessment for patients admitted as emergencies. These can then be directed to the clinical areas most appropriate for their condition. The Trust is also home to the Wessex Renal and Transplant Unit and it holds prestigious Cancer Beacon Status for the Head and Neck Cancer Services. Host-ing the largest Ministry of Defence Hospital Unit (MDHU) in the country, the Trust enjoys strong military connections and is proud of this association. This means that as a Trust, we have wider responsibilities than those of standard NHS organisations. Military staff now account for 3% of the total workforce and the Trust has responsibility to ensure the staff have exposure to the appropriate clinical experience required during their times of deployment throughout the world.

For more information, please visit http://www.porthosp.nhs.uk/

Media Contacts:
Anoto:
Kathryn Cotsworth/Amanda Hassall, Six Degrees
+44 1628 480 280
anoto@sixdegreespr.com

DevelopIQ
Robert Bakewell, Commercial Director, DevelopIQ Ltd.
+44 1962 658001
robert.bakewell@developiq.com

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