Patent ID: 7167166

Claim:
A method for digitally processing information to be written on an observation form, said form being preprinted with at least one blank time scaled area chart having at least one line and several columns, each column corresponding to a determined printed time, said form being also preprinted with a pattern adapted to cooperate with a digital pen and a computerized localization system for determining the position of the pen, the method comprising: using a pen having a writing tip and a digital tip; filling in data in one column at a time; reproducing said data in the computerized localization system and associating to said data its recording time; comparing said recording time with the localized printed time of said data, so as to detect any inconsistency between the recording time and the printed time; and comparing the recording time and/or the localized printed time and/or the current time with a preregistered prescript time of a given prescript action monitored by said chart, so as to detect an eventual miss of the prescript action, wherein said prescript time is automatically deduced from another chart.