“I care if Glen Tullman buys the iPad, because if he does, then I know Apple will have created its biggest product ever,” Cramer reports. “Who is Glen Tullman? He is the chief executive of Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, the leading maker of software to control costs for doctors and hospitals in the United States.”
Cramer reports, “Tullman told me last night that his company just received its iPads yesterday and is building an app that will allow doctors to walk around with the iPad, clipboard-style, so that they can input prescriptions and data right into the records and right to the pharmacy. It’s the first technological product that he says can replace current systems and save money for the company and that the company will most likely be switching to the device en masse.”
Cramer writes, “This is the real deal, the breaking out of the consumer ghetto by Apple and the liberation at the hands of the Dell and Hewlett-Packard taskmasters.”
MacDailyNews Take: You forgot Microsoft, Jim. Dell and HP et al. are nothing but box assemblers who spread Microsoft’s inferior, productivity- and joy-sapping crap around the globe.
Cramer writes, “A generation of kids brought up on Apple is now getting in charge of major portions of companies and they simply do not understand why they ever have to deal with Dell.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Davewrite” for the heads up.]
Good story, but let’s not forget that it’s Jim Cramer who is cracked.
Jim Cramer actually said something insightful. Will wonders never cease?
It’s nice to see Apple on top.
I remember the days when people would scoff at me when I told them I was a Mac user.
Now they’re actually envious!
The first thought I had when I heard early rumors of the iPod was that it wauld make a terrific Doctor’s notepad. Big market here.
Many such “business” applications are possible. You just need to look at places where a clipboard with paper forms are commonly used. And places where a bookcase full of paper manuals are needed for reference.
I was at the Apple store playing with the iPad and you should have heard the kids squeal when they walked into the store and ran right to the iPad. Apple is now cradle to the grave. Congrats!!!!!!!!!
I’m using my iPad right now in clinic seeing patients records and viewing x-rays right on on it. The patients are amazed. I use ZipChart EMR software.
I don’t care what Jim Cramer says. Hasn’t he and his Wall Street criminal buddies ruined enough people’s lives?
Wow! Jim, good job, well said.
The only tablet computer I’ve ever seen in use was just last year in a physical therapy office. I don’t recall the make, but it was running some version of Windows, and when the receptionist asked me to fill in a post-treatment survey, she suddenly got a sour look on her face and apologized because it had frozen and she needed to re-boot. Had the exact same thing happen at an Apple store last year when the sales girl tried to ring me up on one of those crappy Microsoft hand-held sales devices they used to use. “Sorry. It froze up and I have to re-start it.”
It’s about damn time Apple made a real showing in the business world. Real productivity is about to get a boost.
PhxDoc
is that an app? If so iPhone or iPad, if not an app how do you run it? Through safari?
Post a video? Sounds great
If the Docs get the 64 gig model they will be able to store the exciting new ObamaCare bill on the iPad and the government commisars will be able to use iChat to deny care to people over 50
for MDN: why the continued attacks on Microsoft? Steve Jobs has described iPad as the future of “computation” which is code for: Apple is phasing out of the regular computer business and ushering in the “magical” new world Steve has brought us in which Microsoft will cease to exist.
Macs are history, PCs are history. All we need, according to Steve, is his iPad, iPhone and iPod – although the tunes player and maybe even the phone’s days are numbered – Steve soon to announce “people don’t talk on the phone anymore” like they don’t read books, don’t need any DVDs, all want glossy, and don’t need things like usb, firewire, or other useless stuff.
Kent, get off the Glenn Beck crack. The health insurance mandate that was passed is identical to what the Retardicans proposed when Clinton was trying to get health reform and it’s the same concept proposed by both Nixon and Reagan and put into effect by Mitt Romney. There will be no “commisars” on fat insurance executives getting richer at the 32 million who will now be forced to buy their offerings at over inflated prices.
Dubya
since you know so much and since you are so worried about greedy Insurance execs you can no doubt explain the city of 98 people in California who receives a $500,000 pension per year. Government bureacrats is where the greed is. And if you think there won’t be gubmint bureaucrats deciding who gets what you are a moron. Medicare already is the biggest denier of service – and it wasn’t run by Maoists till a year ago.
Dubya
That is “the city administrator” who receives a $500,000 annual pension guaranteed by the citizens of Califrnia. Public service – what a life.
Question for Question,
Why are you here when you could be over at SuperSite for Windows sucking Paul Thurrott’s dick?
My employer (a large hospital) has their patient-care app running via Citirx on iPad already. We are already programming apps to run on iPad. Doctors and Hospitals will be all over this. Why didn’t I buy more stock at $80?
“Why didn’t I buy more stock at $80?” Probably for the same reason I didn’t buy when I had a hunch at 17. If you figure it out, let me know….
Freaking politics…
Come on guys. Get out of here, go on a political forum or…
…by the way my dad is stronger than your dad!
Let me say it once again. M$ Windows == “The Sunset Industry of Modern Computing”
Kent. You got it bang-on first time. The only problem is that “O” care will use windows thingies, so they’ll be able to say, “Oh, it froze, come back next week”. (Don’t forget to show up early, because there are long lines).
The number of uses for the iPad in industry is limitless.
“This is the real deal, the breaking out of the consumer ghetto by Apple and the liberation at the hands of the Dell and Hewlett-Packard taskmasters.”
he’s got it backasswards, the businesses are being liberated from the winblows world
@Kent
You loves you some Fox News propaganda don’t you. Probably eat it with a giant spoon.
Kent, Reality Check time: how many people are needed to constitute a “city”. Here in Massachusetts, we have towns with tens of thousands of people and cities generally have at least 100,000. A city would have more than 98 employees! So, maybe the rest of your comment is as precise?
Besides … California is a Republican State. Has been for a while now. A long while, off and on. Lots of conservatives there – just ask the gays who want to get married there. No. I think you misunderstood something.
On Topic: Cramer OFTEN makes good judgements on things. My problem with him is that his basic information is no better than mine.
DLMeyer – California is a Republican State. Hahahahahahahaha. You should tell it to that harridan Peelosi and the rest of the dem cabal.
kent – steve is a progressive, burn
@Davewrite
You are the man!
Nice catch on that article!
I’m savoring it right now.
Kent writes, “That is “the city administrator” who receives a $500,000 annual pension guaranteed by the citizens of Califrnia. Public service – what a life.” That’s the highest pension I’ve seen reported from the public sector. And, yes, it is obscene.
I count myself as one of the privileged public pensioners (US Civil Service). I joke that I’m doing my part to bankrupt the country. But the fact is that pension costs are putting enormous pressure especially at the state and local level, while public entitlements (social security, medicare and medicaid) take an even bigger bite out of the federal budget, and the new health plan will just add to the red ink.
Anyone with a modicum of vision could have foreseen that an Apple tablet would find a home in the medical field, as it will in many sectors. The iPhone marked the tipping point; the iPad just pushed it over.
Do your patients know you are reading MDN while seeing them?
And the Construction Industry offers iPad apps as well
when CapandTrade gets jammed through without being read (or even written) before getting passed, then GUBMINT house inspectors will be able to use the iPad to track homeowner “violations” in home appliances, notify Energy Dept enforcement personnel, notify local enforcement deputies to arrest homeowners who have appliances that use electricity. The iPad will be great for enforcing the new Obama mandates for home living without electricity.
If someone would check, they would find that much more than 50% of the Freshman going to college are using Macs now! Guess who coming to work with their own computers now or requesting a Mac at work!
When the next virus takes down the Windows PCs at work, don’t you think the boss will see that the only people working are using Macs!
@Big Al aka MDN
Why are you attacking Steve Jobs plans for the future he is creating for us? I thought you were all in on all that.
@kent
Hmmm. I rather thought that the bill which ended up being signed into law was the product of congress, watered down to get it past the republican-controlled senate, and heavily amended by the republicans even after the bill was signed. From the outside, it looks like a good first step in dealing with what is the worst health system in a first world country. Now all you need to do is get your drug companies, hospitals and doctors under control – all whom can charge as much as they like and making health care so unaffordable… Then you need to tackle pensions and bring them under national control so that your industry is not crippled by the cost of supporting their retirees. And, while you are at it, you could look at ways to reduce the enormous disparity in income which makes the US look more like a tinpot african dictatorship every day – where the majority of US wealth is controlled by a few greedy bankers and corporate execs, not to mention the arms industry… Speaking of which, if you want to know why the US is in Iraq, follow the money trail – some people made a great deal of money from that war… Money which was funnelled through the VP’s office without much, or any, scrutiny from Congress by a VP who, coincidentally, came out of the arms industry himself…
So, socialism is the answer?
Or, thuggery at the hands of a transparent “el presidente”?
TIME TO WIPE THE SLATE CLEAN AND GET RID OF CAREER POLITICIANS WHO THINK THEY’RE ABOVE THE PEOPLE!
byronic, “Hmmm. I rather thought that the bill which ended up being signed into law was the product of congress, watered down to get it past the republican-controlled senate, and heavily amended by the republicans even after the bill was signed. “
You thought wrong. Ask Stupak.
“After selling his soul to Nancy Pelosi, it appears that Bart Stupak finally found the courage to tell her no,” said Ken Spain, communications director of the National Republican Congressional Committee. “The political fallout over the Democrats’ government takeover of health care has put the political careers of many Democrats in jeopardy, thanks in part to Stupak’s decision to abandon his alleged pro-life principles.”
Buh-bye tech support industry!
@Kent
“If the Docs get the 64 gig model they will be able to store the exciting new ObamaCare bill on the iPad and the government commisars will be able to use iChat to deny care to people over 50”
It would take less than 1GB to hold a brain dump from you!
Dear Kent,
Shouldn’t you be busy clinging to your guns and religion instead of peddling your delusions here? Go back to Goobernation and let the adults have a nice conversation about Macs.
There was a feature on tonight’s 6 pm news of a surgeon using the IPad in a manner suggested in your article.
iTunes should have some feature that lets you register business names to iPads. That was iAds could be specifically tailored to each business.
Apple would make a fortune.
“Jim Cramer actually said something insightful. Will wonders never cease?”
Just remember even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
@byronic
You say “I rather thought that the bill which ended up being signed into law was the product of congress, watered down to get it past the republican-controlled senate, and heavily amended by the republicans even after the bill was signed.” Being liberal means never having to actually know facts. Since there were zero Republican votes for the bill out of 535 representatives, the idea watering down this travesty to get it by the “Republican controlled senate” is pretty funny. Where did you come up with the one-liner about the Republican controlled senate? I didn’t even notice that jewel amid the rest of your drunken perceptions. Just to be clear – the bill is the product of one party, infected with 60s leftist destructive infantilism, passing a bill they did not read against a vast majority of public opinion, which instinctively knew that whatever these charlatans were about to foist on us, is far worse than the excellent health care system we now have.
and to TX doc – you say “Shouldn’t you be busy clinging to your guns and religion instead of peddling your delusions here? Go back to Goobernation” – Since Leftists like you love Che so much, and since Che loved killing people when not spewing lame Marxist doctrine, I think your advice to arm oneself is good. The next revolution will include freedom loving Americans with guns who don’t take kindly to effete TX docs who want to steal our liberty. As for “goobernation” I will take it over the gulag you have planned for this country – you hate filled intellectual snob. Now – go and have a good day..
@ Kent
Dude, chill the f$uk out.
I think I finally figured out why well-spoken morons like you and Ron insist in coming to MDN to bitch and whine about politics—it’s because your voice stands out among the other visitors who come here to get Mac news. If you were to go hang out on the Fox news forums, your comments and opinion would get lost among all the other moronic vitiriol.
Please just STFU about politics on this site.
Seaman Stain
Your name does you justice. Keep it.
As for my posts, it is currently a free country. Of course, the Messiah Obama is doing all he can to end that. It is worth observing the fact that our current leader hates the Constitution. So, Seaman Stain, go back to your right hand.
Best wishes
Folks,
If you ignore the hardon it WILL go away. Except if it is priapism.
Just as the doc.
Pablo
Just ASK the doc. Sorry for the misspell