Saturday, February 26, 2011

iPad at Work – in the ER and All Over Hospitals

Photo Credit: Jean Lachat / Chicago Sun-Times

Emergency room doctors are using them to order lab tests and medication. Plastic surgeons are using them to show patients what they might look like after surgery. And medical residents are using them as a quick reference to look up drug interactions and medical conditions.

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.

That’s a slice from a recent report in the Chicago Sun-Times, highlighting the increasing popularity and adoption of the iPad in the Chicago health care sector.

Among the most interesting things about the report is that it shows both the broad range of areas where the iPad is proving an effective tool, and also that the iPad seems to have nice dual-pronged adoption momentum

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