When Lee Boardman, president and CEO of Sandy-based Velosum, sees a police officer writing a ticket or a doctor writing a case report, he sees an opportunity. Why? Because his company created a software platform that makes paper act like a computer. The software employs a digital pen and paper, a cell phone, and an Internet portal to write parking citations (vCitePlus) and medical case report forms (vTrialsPlus) to the Web.

“If you’re an officer handwriting a parking citation, someone is re-keying that data into a database,” Boardman says. “Fifty-five percent of all parking citations are handwritten and re-keyed. Velosum’s technology allows anything you hand-write to be rendered in real time to the Web without any re-keying.”

Through the cell phone, software connects to the Internet and communicates directly back to the field. In the case of vCitePlus, for example, an officer writing a citation may be notified that the vehicle owner has many outstanding unpaid violations.

vTrialsPlus allows doctors instant access to medical case report forms anywhere in the world and the ability to review those documents even before the patient leaves the room.

Boardman says vCitePlus is the only handwritten electronic citation system in the United States and vTrialsPlus is unique in the world.

Since the December 2007 launch of vCitePlus, Velosum has been used by authorities in Ogden and Provo, as well as the University of California at Irvine, Nantucket Island, Mass., and Holyoke, Mass. As of May, vCitePlus was Velosum’s core application and vTrialsPlus continues to perform well in its first trial.