Digital Forms Capture, Share, Analyze
Digital Forms is a family of customizable products built around handwriting recognition. Use the tool that works for your staff and your work environment -- digital pens, Tablet PCs or Windows Mobile phones -- to capture handwriting on paper or electronic forms. Recognition software digitizes this information and transmits it from the field to your office, making it available to decision makers rapidly and enabling integration into your existing systems. Capture timesheets, meeting notes, field status reports, patient interviews or design your own custom forms.
Integrate handwriting into your business
Captured handwriting information is automatically transferred to a central server, using real-time wireless connectivity or store-and-forward technology. Flexible validation interface enables authors, reviewers or both to sign off on recognized text before sending it for processing. Back-end integrations bring validated information into your accounting and operational systems, document repositories, email systems and more. Digital Forms can be extended to supply validated data to almost any system.
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Digital Forms for Construction
Field construction personnel capture and document critical facts every day. How close to complete is the project? What equipment is onsite? How much labor cost was incurred today? Did the customer request changes? But if this information only exists on paper, you have to collect, re-key and interpret the data before you can act on it.
Digital Forms for Construction enables your field staff to fill out daily reports, timesheets, change orders and equipment logs using familiar pen technology. Use digital pens to write on real paper, then dock the pen with a PC and automatically upload the page image to a server in your office. Or use a wireless-enabled Tablet PC or smart phone, and upload forms in real time. Handwriting recognition software converts writing into data, with human review to fix errors. Validated data flows into your accounting, scheduling and project management systems rapidly and automatically. Exception conditions trigger email alerts. Page images are classified, tagged and stored for later reference in a searchable repository.
Digital Forms for Construction can be extended with custom forms of your own design and custom integrations to move the data anywhere it needs to go. Instead of spending time wondering where the forms are, your project managers can know what’s happening in the field and can respond to problems when they are found, not days or weeks later.
Digital Forms for Service
Digital Forms for Service is a field service application for companies that have mobile technicians who are dispatched to customer sites throughout the work day.
DFS enables technicians to: keep their work order list updated from the field, using wireless devices or fixed public Internet access points download their assigned work orders in real time throughout the work day capture service work order information using digitized handwriting recognition technology, eliminating double-entry of paper forms
DFS enables office dispatchers and service managers to: communicate work orders to technicians automatically, without phone calls eliminate error-prone double entry of paper form data update Timberline and other back-end systems automatically
DFS is tightly integrated with Timberlines Service Management module. This integration enables seamless workflow between central office dispatchers and technicians. Field-captured work order information is digitized and used to update Timberline SM, and images of field technicians actual handwriting are captured and stored in a document management system.
Digital Forms for Health
Physicians and nurses interview patients every day. Using a computer and keyboard to capture the results places a barrier between the clinician and the patient and impedes communication. For many people, using a keyboard is also slower and less accurate than handwriting. Using a pen or a stylus can help turn an awkward, uncomfortable experience for both parties into one in which clinicians and patients can focus on the care relationship.
Digital Forms for Healthcare enables clinicians to capture patient encounter forms or research surveys with handwriting, and then use recognition software to digitize the results for integration into an EMR or research application. Human review ensures that hard-to-recognize handwriting can be interpreted correctly, without requiring data entry for the majority of data.
Digital Forms for Healthcare can be extended with custom forms of your own design and custom integrations to move the data anywhere it needs to go. For clinicians who prefer traditional dictation, voice recognition technology can supplement handwriting recognition to deliver a dramatic reduction in data entry costs.
Digital Forms for Professional Services
Meeting with a client and taking notes is a crucial part of the job for attorneys, accountants, consultants and other professional service providers. Using a keyboard to take notes is off-putting to many customers, and is frequently slower and less accurate than using handwriting.
Digital Forms for Professional Services enables you to take handwritten notes using a digital pen or Tablet PC, then rapidly and easily classify, tag and store the notes electronically for later review. You can apply recognition software to your notes to convert them into text, or simply store a page image. Digital Forms for Professional Services enables you to share your notes automatically with others, such as your clients, administrative or accounting staff.