BBC News report - Smart pens aim for better health

[[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Morrison)]

Smart pens could soon be helping hospitals take better care of
patients. 

When combined with digital paper, the pens make it much easier to track
a patient's vital signs during their stay in hospital. 

By constantly capturing data about patients during routine
examinations, it should become possible to spot problems before they
get serious. 

More here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/technology/3197649.stm

I wonder how reliable this will be in real use, and how such data will
be stored, accessed and identified as belonging to a particular
patient.

I'm not sure that this looks like it solves any particular problem very
well....

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Brian Morrison                                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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