Apple Tablet

App developers’ interest focused on tablets, Android, and Apple

Feb 21, 2011 by
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Increasing smart phone popularity and expanding tablet technology are sparking the interest of app developers across all OS platforms.

iPad could support “Handwriting Keyboard” – A requirement for medical point of care use in health care

Jan 30, 2010 by
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Ever tried using your iPhone medical apps with gloves?  Doesn’t work too well.  Although, if you’ve got gloves on you probably shouldn’t be using your iPhone anyways.  The iPad is being touted by many, including us, as a device that could be used with patients at the point of care.  Translation:  Could be used in hospital rooms and procedure rooms that require you to be gloved up. Since the iPad has a capacitive touch screen your gloves won’t work, and [Read more]

Apple iPad: Promising Features For Healthcare Use and Medical Education

Jan 27, 2010 by
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The iPad, Apple’s new tablet, has just been released.  The following are some quick hitting features of the iPad that the medical community should be excited about, and ones we hope will be implemented in the clinic setting. Battery life: Up to 10 hours, we mentioned in a previous post how important battery life is if Apple wants this tablet to be used in the healthcare setting Beautiful screen: The 1024 by 768 screen appears to be gorgeous by many [Read more]

Five Lessons Apple must learn from current Healthcare Tablets if the Apple Tablet (iPad) is to Succeed in the Medical Industry

Jan 26, 2010 by
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With Apple’s soon to be released iPad re-energizing the tablet market, there has been much speculation on how the tablet will transform personal computing.  However, the tablet has been with us for quite some time. Almost a decade ago, I started testing and using Windows-based Tablet PCs for two cancer centers in Canada. They worked pretty well for what we were trying to do back then, but had definite limitations within the healthcare environment. If Apple’s iPad is to survive [Read more]

Apple Tablet Will Succeed in the Medical Community Because of Operating System, Not on Form Factor Alone

Jan 14, 2010 by
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The rumor mill keeps on churning with the soon to be released Apple Tablet, and now the medical community is supposedly involved.  According to an article by VentureBeat, Apple Reps have been talking to the Los Angeles Cedars – Sinai Medical Center about the potential of an Apple Tablet for medical professionals. The article goes on to mention one of the reasons why tablets haven’t been universally embraced by medical professionals: We’ve been told for years that medical professionals were [Read more]

How the iPhone has paved the way for a quicker transition by the Healthcare industry to an Apple OS Tablet

Aug 19, 2009 by
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Rumors of an Apple tablet have been all over the place during the past few weeks. Although Apple is notorious for pulling off clandestine product launches, the consensus appears to be that Apple will launch a tablet early next year. With the $19 billion dollars from the stimulus package set aside exclusively for electronic medical records, it would make business sense for Apple to venture into making tablets that can be used for electronic medical records. So then hypothetically, if [Read more]