| Happy iPad Day! Well, more than a few days ago. But | | | | medical industry and electronic records. |
| the iPad is still making a huge splash and making news | | | | |
| all over the place. iPad medicine is also a big topic, | | | | Your next visit to your concierge doctor just might |
| with the iPad attracting millions of medical | | | | be a little more digitally interactive. Now, instead of |
| professionals curious to see if this new technology | | | | just explaining to you your symptoms or diagnosis, |
| will help out in their offices. Concierge doctors are | | | | perhaps showing you a 2D diagram, your concierge |
| just as excited, if not more, than the rest of the | | | | doctor can now give you the 3D explanation. Your |
| field. | | | | doctor can pull up an app that shows in rotating 3D |
| | | | | exactly what is going on with your body. Check out |
| We've talked about the iPad a few times before in | | | | the Blausen Human Atlas app to see what I mean. |
| our blogs, but now that it has officially been released | | | | Pretty amazing stuff! |
| to the public, we did a little more research on what | | | | |
| the reaction has been from the medical field. What | | | | The iPad is so affordable; it can be used not only in |
| are doctors and bloggers alike saying about this | | | | every doctor's office, but in every single exam room |
| amazing new toy? | | | | in that office. With the stylus and medicine apps, this |
| | | | | new toy can help doctors go completely digital, |
| "Now that we know what Apple has been working | | | | convert to electronic records, instantly pull up those |
| on these last many months (it's an iPad) one of the | | | | records in each exam room, and instantly provide 3D |
| first questions has to be, what do we do with it? | | | | explanations to their patients. Remarkable! |
| The answer is it's what your doctor has been | | | | |
| dreaming of ever since the PC revolution began." | | | | Just listen to what The Washington Post recently |
| – | | | | said about the iPad: |
| It's kind of a given fact that physicians and concierge | | | | |
| doctors love the iPhone. I'm guessing your doctor | | | | "As for healthcare, the idea is that if you are in rural |
| probably has one and uses the multitude of medical | | | | area with a unique condition, you can talk to a |
| apps on it. It's incredibly useful, and since the iPhone | | | | specialist in Los Angeles, for example, exchange |
| is so popular with doctors it stands to reason that | | | | video files and xrays to diagnose your condition and |
| the transition to an iPad would be seamless. | | | | get over-the-Web treatment. |
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| The best part, according to ZDNet, the iPad can be | | | | That's the idea, at least. And the FCC has made |
| subsidized by an Electronic Medical Record company | | | | recommendations to other agencies (Education, |
| so that it's practically free. With healthcare reform in | | | | Energency, Health and Human Services ) to carry out |
| the works, doctors will have to find a way to | | | | policies that put broadband at the center." |
| convert to electronic records anyway. Apple may | | | | |
| have hit the jackpot on this one in terms of the | | | | Very interesting stuff going on with the iPad. |