Ten new applications will iPad revolutionize medical sector (1)

Shine introduced by iPad provides a hotbed of innovation "," in the medical sector, based on the application of iPad varied software has many innovative applications here sprouted.

With the advent of shiny, iPad medical sector faces new opportunities. Many medical staff in thinking: how to apply to the doctor iPad clinic or emergency room? it can give patients a glance at the screen, and medical service providers more seamlessly communicate?

This article is an interview with the many medical professionals, their comments on the iPad.

The prevailing view is: iPad big promising, but is not yet mature.

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Will revolutionize medical iPad? for this problem, Harvard Medical School CIO and Beth • Israel Deaconess Medical Center emergency room doctor John Halamka MD David answer is both Yes and no.

John Halamka talks to David: "my ideal clinical device needs to have the following characteristics: weight of less than 1 pound, into the white coat Pocket; battery life time in 8-12 hours (can be used for a frequency); after falling down is right; there is a built-in standard keyboard, speech recognition, or very reliable touch screen input; to place on the device or the cloud environment of numerous medical applications software provides a platform.

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And the ideal standard to compare: NetBook and notebook price is too expensive, the volume is too large, it does not meet the requirements of the battery life time; iPhone is too small to reliably data entry; the Kindle is not a bad device, but not a flexible application platform.

"It can be said that the iPad than other devices on the market closer to my request. "John Halamka David said:" However, the ideal clinical equipment should contain a camera to shoot for clinical and video teleconferencing. The capacitive touch screen, wearing gloves hand through the touch screen to input data can be difficult. Single hand gripping iPad means that you can use the other looking at the keyboard. ”

Of course, there are still some iPad is not satisfactory.

"This device is a bit large, difficult to squeeze into white-coat pocket, it is difficult to disinfection, may not fall on the floor in the hospital. "David John Halamka says:" my overall feeling is that it is not very suitable for the medical profession, but than I am now on other units closer to me, it's definitely worth a try. ”

"IPad in the medical sector is full of promise.

"North Hampshire booshehr, Nashua's physician Dr. Kevin Pho medicine," iPad strengths lies in software and programming, is how easy it is to use. Apple do product consistent and easy to use. Now, software companies who need to write to fully leverage the benefits of iPad is an easy to use software program. IPad may act as a simple digital electronic medical record system, and Pharmacy and other medical record system for easy connection. ”

"IPad will eventually be used for medical and clinical application.

"Colombia Medical Center it Department staff Brian Ahier said:" it's almost a generation change. Older doctors opposed the use of iPad, they cannot easily adapt to Tablet PCs, PDAs, and care devices that are easy to access clinical information or e-prescribing. In contrast the young doctor, who was pleased to discover the iPad has a software application for PAC image (actually a diagnostic image), the concept of iPad. ”

At the moment, there are very few electronic health records vendors specifically for Mac OS or application software of iPhone development, but as of this writing the application software of iPad is very diverse, and later also appears some highly specialized clinical application software, the doctor can use every day.

But five years ago, nobody would have thought that the doctor will be mobile phones are used for these purposes.

San Diego County Medical Association CEO Tom Gehring and not too optimistic about iPad, "If you treat it as a Tablet PC, we have to think of the Internet, see the product concept.

If you put it as the iPhone, there is no need for the iPad. It is a bit of a luxury, but is actually a big iTouch. It is not a revolutionary product, unless it is for it to write cool applications. The key is data transmission can be consistent with the health insurance portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). ”

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