“The director of the Louisiana Poison Center is using an iPad to help manage patients poisoned by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico,” Mitch Wagner reports for Computerworld.

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“Mark Ryan, director of the Louisiana Poison Center, uses the $29.99 LogMeIn Ignition application on the iPad to log in remotely to his office PC, so he can use the center’s data collection application to coordinate planning with the U.S. Health Department,” Wagner reports. “The Poison Center forwards every report of oil-related poisoning to the Health Department, to help coordinate reacting to geographic clusters, and get early warning of emerging trends.”

Wagner reports, “With his iPad at his side, Ryan is able to log in to his desktop computer and forward the report of each individual case to the Health Department within 15 minutes of its coming in, around the clock and seven days a week, he said… At first, Ryan used the iPhone to log into his desktop computer and forward the case from Toxicall to the Health Department. ‘I was just about to go blind, having to expand the view just to navigate,’ Ryan said about using Ignition on the iPhone. ‘With the large number of cases coming in, it was clear that while it was a solution, there as a better solution out there.’ So he got a 3G iPad in June.”

Read more in the full article here.

More info about LogMeIn Ignition for Apple iPad via Apple’s iTunes App Store here.