Comments on: Healthcare Wants a Tablet, But Not Apple’s iPad | Survey Results

By: Donavon Lewis

Donavon Lewis — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:53:00 +0000

I have to disagree with a few of the components that are lacking. Im not much of an Apple person myself, but I do know that programs like SHopSavy for the iPhone that uses the camera technology to read barcodes could be a solution for the lacking external barcode scanner. Also, we have been able to use the citrix client for web access to run most all applications that PCs have to run and that require Windows Server OS. The problem in IT (we/Me) is that supporting the devices and the fact that the user WILL have to zoom in and out of an app designed for a mouse and keyboard, not touch screen apps found nativly on the iwhatever and app store. I worked for a medical charting software company and our biggest problem was just keeping our product working let alone for an apple sdk (program to make apple software). Just my 2 cents. Thanks for the research. Very helpfull

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[...] exploring the need for iPad software in the medical field. One of their surveys indicates that 35% of healthcare providers are “very likely” to purchase a tablet computer, but only two Electronic Health Record (EHR) apps were written specifically for the iPad: Nimble [...]

By: Rak

Rak — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:54:15 +0000

In the near future possibly there will be some devices similar to the IPad which fit the requirements of the healthcare sector better than the Ipad now!

By: jhill

jhill — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:32:43 +0000

As an EMT, the iPad, given the right software, could be a huge help in the field for write ups, med references, language translation, text to speech, etc.

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:24:34 +0000

This blog opinion was written prematurely. Healthcare providers are salivating for ipads these days.

By: Nigel Spier

Nigel Spier — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:43:42 +0000

This could not be more off the mark. The iPad is going to be the tablet of choice for physicians. Most market research has demonstrated that the iPad is the first device to spark a surge in interest in adopting a paperless office solution, and now every EMR vendor is scrambling to get an iPad solution for their software. This article seems to have a very narrow focus and is the typical kind of stuff we have seen from a windows-centric world. Microsoft has tried too long to make the healthcare market fit it’s mold and like most other things it has tried to do in it’s heavy handed manner, it has been roundly rejected.

The iPad will spur a whole new generation of EMR software from vendors that “get it”. Most of the arguments you present are in fact true for all the other tablets as well. And as far as having sealed ports, there is only one vendor out there that sells a product like that and its big, and clunky. Most iPad adopters looking for this kind of protection will find it in any number of cases that are out there for the iPad.

I am part of a large group of physicians and the iPad is for the first time sparking interest in even our older physicians to adopting EMR. There are in fact native solutions that Apple has helped developers with for the iPad that are already head an shoulders above anything else ever produced for a tablet. Face it, Apple, as usual, is leap frogging the industry and the iPad will leave others in the dust.

By: Anthony Clark

Anthony Clark — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:56:24 +0000

Instead of trying to change the iPad by running MS software via Citrix and changing the hardware with cases that don’t exist with RFID, Bar Code, etc etc….

Why not just use one of the Windows tablets and combine it with a touch-friendly user interface?

By: yoshiaki matsuoka

yoshiaki matsuoka — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:35:15 +0000

I do not agree with your claim. They need a big screen. The iPhone is too small….

By: Kiljoy616

Kiljoy616 — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:54:08 +0000

Its not Doctors who hate the Ipad its IT who hates Ipad in hospitals. The Databases that run hospitals are old and very badly design, they work but are in no way considered user friendly.

I can see doctors wanting the Ipad not some bloated Windows Clone but because of how the database in hospitals are designed they will not be getting them. Its bad enough how antiquated the technology is in most hospitals that I have worked in that I can’t see it arriving in the next 10 years.

Hospitals are not in the for front of technology and the old guard had to die off before change comes. Clinics are the same, antiquated databases are what run most clinics and the Ipad is just too new.

By: John Michael

John Michael — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:04:05 +0000

Interesting conversation, I am an Emerg Phy, Medhost has just been imposed on us, aside from the physician chart it seems like a pretty good product. Since it has built in Citrix and acts as a thin client (which we are using for Medhost), I would think an iPad would be a pretty ideal product. What I miss about not having a chart in hand, is I have no cue to go back and forth to at bedside as I see the patient.

I do not believe the other items on the list are of any importance to me as a physician.