Brad Tollefson's List: WSUS_Medical Uses for iPad

• The iPad is the beginning of this end.

• The long story of humanism — by which I mean the emergence of individual consciousness as a byproduct of our language and literature — comes to an end when we return, futuristically, to doing everything by hand.

    

  We no longer hear the voices of the past, because we have our fingers in our ears.
• Tablets are the future of media — if they become ubiquitous. And that will happen only if they replace laptops.
• I think they’re going to sell like hotcakes.

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• Volosin suggests iPad integration has been an easy transition, as many doctors were already using Citrix Receiver for the iPhone.

• We've got a lot of ideas and uses, a lot of the ideas are to extend functionality we already have in existing applications. Catering, bed-side, ED triage, lab results, pharmacy, warehouse (linen stock), dietetics, radiology, consultancy, etc.
• it's one step closer to a portable solution for bedside e-health in hospitals.
• it could make an outstanding e-clipboard with iwork spreadsheets.......gosh! 

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• What’s most exciting is that this fundamental transformation—cloud + social + iPad—will inspire a new generation of wildly innovative new apps that will change entire industries. Take health. We have all been waiting for the health application that will revolutionize how we share and communicate with our doctors, and help us make better health care decisions. The apps we have seen as first generation EHR/PHR just have not cut it, and now with ObamaCare there is no killer app to accelerate through the new EHR reimbursement program. The shift ignited by the iPad will allow the proliferation of these new missing apps, and automate the industries and professionals left behind by the last generation of technology.
• Our industry has gone through many shifts, but ultimately, the big ones have always been about software, not hardware. Now, we are seeing a simultaneous software and hardware revolution. The key apps we use in productivity, collaboration, communication, entertainment, education, and even health, will all be rewritten to take advantage of the new capabilities.