“Since Apple’s iPad hit the market in April, doctors at Chicago area hospitals are increasingly using the hot-selling tablet as a clinical tool,” Thomas reports. “Not only does the iPad allow doctors to view electronic medical records, wherever they are, it also gives them a way to show patients their X-rays, EKGs and other lab tests on an easy-to-read screen. Plus, it’s lighter and has a longer battery life than many laptops, making it convenient for doctors to take on rounds.”
Thomas reports, “Within the next month, the University of Chicago Medical Center plans to provide iPads to all of its internal medicine residents, expanding on a pilot program launched earlier this year. Similarly, Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood has given iPads to all of its orthopedic residents as part of a pilot program… Another hospital that has embraced the iPad is MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island. Once doctors there learned that they could access the hospital’s electronic medical records with the iPad, ‘it went through here like wildfire,’ said Dr. Richard Watson, an emergency room physician at MetroSouth. ‘At least half of our staff here in the emergency room has their own iPad and carries it and uses it.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If iPhone doesn’t get ’em, iPad will.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arline M.” for the heads up.]
“Can they be sterilized? If not they are dangerous.”
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
@ ron:
Please notice that no one in the OR is using an iPad (unless you are in Japan and it is under a sterile drape) — therefore, sterilization is not needed. Even the PC terminals in OR’s are not “sterilized” after procedures. Even then, the AORN requirement for computer hardware in an operating room is that all vertical surfaces must be decontaminated with a disinfectant after each patient encounter. Anywhere else in any medical facility is not sterile, and isn’t required to be.
The process of sterilization is very specific — most of the time it is performed by heat, in autoclaves. There are other methods for materials that cannot handle the heat, but the preferred method is to put instruments into an autoclave.
@ ron:
Please notice that no one in the OR is using an iPad (unless you are in Japan and it is under a sterile drape) — therefore, sterilization is not needed. Even the PC terminals in OR’s are not “sterilized” after procedures. Even then, the AORN requirement for computer hardware in an operating room is that all vertical surfaces must be decontaminated with a disinfectant after each patient encounter. Anywhere else in any medical facility is not sterile, and isn’t required to be.
The process of sterilization is very specific — most of the time it is performed by heat, in autoclaves. There are other methods for materials that cannot handle the heat, but the preferred method is to put instruments into an autoclave.
I know that if I were a cancer patient at M.D. Anderson’s Cancer in Houston, which is the #1 ranked center in the world, I would be much more appreciative being shown an animation of the cancer, its growth, how radiation or Chemo works on cancer cells, etc, I would have a better idea of my trauma or, hopefully, non-traumatic experience I would be facing.
What a great tool for dentistry, cosmetic surgery or any riled of medicine where the patient could easily see a graphic on something they could hold in their hands.
I know that if I were a cancer patient at M.D. Anderson’s Cancer in Houston, which is the #1 ranked center in the world, I would be much more appreciative being shown an animation of the cancer, its growth, how radiation or Chemo works on cancer cells, etc, I would have a better idea of my trauma or, hopefully, non-traumatic experience I would be facing.
What a great tool for dentistry, cosmetic surgery or any riled of medicine where the patient could easily see a graphic on something they could hold in their hands.
If the medical field would use Macs now, that would really be an improvement. Every hospital, every Dr. or Dentist office except for one that I have ever been in was all PC. Scary my life is in the hands of a PC.
I hope the iPads and iPhones will help Apple break into these areas and dominate too.
If the medical field would use Macs now, that would really be an improvement. Every hospital, every Dr. or Dentist office except for one that I have ever been in was all PC. Scary my life is in the hands of a PC.
I hope the iPads and iPhones will help Apple break into these areas and dominate too.
OK, I have no idea why that posted 2x.
OK, I have no idea why that posted 2x.
I said it all in my article:
iPad: Do They *Really* Get It? (Full article)
http://bit.ly/bhhcf2
MacDailyNews reprint:
http://bit.ly/cmXiFF
I said it all in my article:
iPad: Do They *Really* Get It? (Full article)
http://bit.ly/bhhcf2
MacDailyNews reprint:
http://bit.ly/cmXiFF
Was this a surprise? I think this was the main reason iPad came out without a camera. If iPad had a built-in camera, many hospital would not have allowed it.
Was this a surprise? I think this was the main reason iPad came out without a camera. If iPad had a built-in camera, many hospital would not have allowed it.
The iPad is that blaster shot into the exhaust port of the M$ Deathstar.
The iPad is that blaster shot into the exhaust port of the M$ Deathstar.