Hopsital utilizing Apple TV and EPIC’s patient care app to communicate with patients in a digital manner.
Tag: iPad hospital use
Crowdfunded accessory combines clipboard and iPad holder
A simple, yet potentially useful adaptation of a clipboard could find a home on the hospital wards if Clipboard+ meets its fundraising deadline on Kickstarter in one week. The idea is that hospital residents and students still need to write on paper, but that juggling a smartphone or tablet while trying to hold paper is […]
Details of highly successful U Chicago hospital iPad program revealed
Recently, physicians at the University of Chicago published a research letter in the Archives of Internal Medicine detailing their experience with the routine use of iPads by internal medicine residents during their regular duties. What they documented was that use of the mobile device was objectively associated with faster order entry after patient admission and the subjective assessment that it saves up to one hour per day for each resident.
Over 80 percent of hospitals in the US are now testing or piloting iPad
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, has announced that over 80 percent of hospitals in the US are now testing or piloting iPad
How to implement an iPad in the hospital, U of Chicago medicine program gives the blueprint
How do you implement the iPad in the hospital setting for patient care and properly distribute it to a large group of physicians — all at once? The University of Chicago’s Internal Medicine residency program tried this last year, and came up with a great blueprint for others to see. Chicago’s Medicine residency garnered national […]
