Symptom assessment in home healthcare using digital pens.

We have developed a system allowing patients subject to palliative advanced home care to frequently submit symptom assessments from their homes. Using digital pen technology developed by Anoto AB, symptom assessments are transferred digitally over the GSM mobile phone network from the patient's home to the hospital clinic. The system is evaluated during spring 2003 at the hospital-based home care (HBHC) clinic of Linköping University Hospital.