A digital pen service has been launched for nurses conducting medicals on behalf of insurance companies but which could be adapted to help financial intermediaries complete and store client data without the need for rekeying.
Known as the Trackberry, the digital pen service has been designed specifically for Medicals Direct – a service employed by several of the UK’s largest insurance companies when new clients are required to go through medical checks ahead of underwriting – to feed medical information about clients directly into a computer system and without the need for scanning of documents or rekeying of paperwork. Although nothing has been developed specifically for the financial intermediary market at this stage, IT consultants who created the Medicals Direct system are now considering whether the way i...
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