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Despite enthusiasm from healthcare providers, hospitals are slow to adopt tablet systems

Dec 29, 2011 by
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Its no secret that healthcare providers are adopting tablets at a rapid pace – one survey found that over 25% of physicians own a tablet and that was nearly nine months ago. This trend, both with tablets and smartphones, has generally been bottom-up; physicians, PA’s, NP’s, nurses, and other healthcare providers are buying consumer devices and bringing them into the clinical world. However, as Eric Yablonka, CIO of University of Chicago Hospitals put it, “This is not ‘nice to have [Read more]

The Kindle Fire ignites excitement among consumers, but will it find a place among medical tablets?

Oct 03, 2011 by
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Comparison of Amazon Kindle models, including the new Kindle touch and Kindle Fire tablet, and how the Kindle Fire can be used in medical education and practice

SMART MIMAS Tablet System Changes the Way Doctors View Images

Aug 25, 2011 by
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SMART MIMAS allows high quality images to be viewed securly by doctors on their android devices and tablets.

Advantech HIT-W121 is a multipurpose tablet based terminal geared toward hospitals and health centers

Aug 25, 2011 by
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Excerpt: Advantech HIT-W121 is a multipurpose infotainment terminal for hospitals and health centers that has a myriad of accessories, ports and can run Windows, Linux or Android.

A Doctor’s Review of the Android HTC Flyer as a Medical Tablet

Aug 16, 2011 by
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The HTC Flyer’s slowly growing Android App Marketplace and support for styluses makes it a reasonable choice for a medical tablet.

Motion Computing – One of the iPad’s Competitors in the Medical Tablet World

Feb 07, 2010 by
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When I first entered the clinical world, physician order entry and electronic medical records were just concepts to me. As I learned how to navigate the hospital, diagnose everything from the mundane to the incredibly rare (my first patient was a baby with an idiopathic subdural venous thrombosis), and figure out how to treat the sick, I also had to learn how to use those two systems as a prerequisite to doing everything else. The four hours of class didn’t [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]

How the Apple Tablet (iPad) Could Transform the Way Patients Experience Healthcare

Jan 25, 2010 by
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As the debut of the iPad fast approaches, speculation about it is reaching a fevered pitch. Scanning the thousands of articles written about the iPad’s potential, one may walk away thinking that Steve Jobs has just cured cancer, ended global warming, and established peace in the Middle East. Some people are even calling Apple’s latest creation the “Jesus tablet.” While the iPad probably falls somewhere short of some of those lofty projections, it has already done what Apple seems to [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]