Does anyone have experience in handwriting clinical notes on a tablet? i.e. with these being converted conventional type and becoming a standard clinical note in an ehr /pms while preserving patient confidentiality?
I think that the major issue from an informatics perspective is the inability to structure the data that results.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) can of course help convert that to searchable text (albeit with some errors), but otherwise you are stuck with storing lots of images which are difficult to index. In other words, it isn’t much of an advance from using paper and then scanning it.
Also, I find it quite slow (my handwriting is awful as well). Is good for drawing pictures (which can be very helpful for patients), but I can’t see it being workable in my context.
Thanks Nathan, appreciate all the work you do so much 
Hi Melanie. Have you considered ditching hand-writing and typing by using a medical voice recognition tool like Dragon Medical One https://www.nuance.com/en-nz/healthcare/provider-solutions/speech-recognition/dragon-medical-one.html. I wonder if that would solve your problem?
Regards, Werner
Hi - I’m currently exploring Nebo as a a software that can do do both typing and handwriting as well as annotating pdfs. According to their privacy policy, if you don’t sign up or use the cloud, they can’t access your content. Based on this I think it would be okay for writing clinical notes. It uses offline AI handwriting recognition, not openAI (unless you want generative content).
Is there anything else I should be careful about?
An ipad with apple pencil has the handwriting model in the device in the OS so guessing that would be best if you were nervous about this?
Thanks Jon - yes apple is great but not compatible with my work IT system unfortunately.