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Brian Eastwood, Health IT Pulse
“Use of the Apple Inc. iPad in health care has risen dramatically since the device was released nearly two years ago. The warm embrace that the industry gave the device, by now, surprises few — health care had been waiting for an easy-to-use tablet, IT departments were already familiar with the iOS operating system and physicians fit nicely into the target market for iPad users (meaning, they can afford it).
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7 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Innovation, mHealth, tablet PC
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Populi
“Doctors are using iPads in huge numbers for personal life project management. 80% of doctors are excited about using them in clinical practice. But when it comes to clinical applications, don’t confuse physicians’ desire for mobility with their current use of iPads in everyday practice.
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5 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Adoption, Hospitals, mHealth, Physicians, tablet PC
Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“Eighty percent of physicians in a recent survey said they believe that the Apple iPad has an “exciting future in healthcare”–but they doubt it is ready for clinical use.
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3 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): mHealth, Physicians, tablet PC
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“A study from the University of Maryland found that radiologists using iPad 2s to evaluate patients for tuberculosis (TB) took twice as long to make a diagnosis as they did when using a 27-inch LCD monitor.
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1 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Imaging, Radiology, tablet PC
Reuters
“Tired of long waits at the hospital for medical tests? If Korean researchers have their way, your smartphone could one day eliminate that — and perhaps even tell you that you have cancer.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Korea | Tag(s): mHealth, Sensors, smartphone, tablet PC
Won BY, Park HG. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 51(3)
Touchscreen testing: A biomolecular detection platform is presented that utilizes a capacitive touchscreen to measure DNA concentration.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Korea | Tag(s): mHealth, Sensors, smartphone, tablet PC
Nari Kannan, SearchHealthIT
“The Ottawa (Ontario) Hospital is the largest acute care hospital in Canada, with 1,163 beds and 11,967 staff members, among them 1,159 attending physicians and 3,886 registered nurses. The hospital announced in December that it will use Aruba Networks Inc.’s WiFi Mobile Virtual Enterprise (MOVE) system to connect 3,000 Apple devices — including iPads, iPhones and iPod Touch units — at the medical facility.
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20 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada, United States | Tag(s): CPOE, Hospitals, Infrastructure, Networks, tablet PC
Anne Zieger, Hospital EMR and EHR
“To date, few hospital IT administrators have whole hog into supporting Apple devices, though many facilities are testing them out. Most testers have found that neither the smartphone nor the tablet work well as clinical data entry devices, and some have actually ended i-whatever pilots when doctors refused to use them.
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19 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Hospitals, Industry, Security, smartphone, tablet PC
Peter Rinck, AuntMinnieEurope
“A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column about LBMs (little black machines). The article had so many clicks that I wondered what attracted such a wide audience to read it. There was no outcry; people seem to know and accept that the ever-sprawling use of mobile phones in front of others can be ill-mannered and antisocial.
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19 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): mHealth, Radiology, smartphone, tablet PC
Mobile Health Live
“The UK’s NHS has published guidance that warns staff not to store sensitive patient data on tablet devices. The advice is from NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), the body which looks after the organisation’s IT infrastructure. According to The Guardian, the CfH has published a good practice guide that says tablet technology is less secure than traditional alternatives.
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17 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tag(s): Encryption, Security, tablet PC
Anja Stagge, Healthcare meets Social Media…
“Eine große Mehrheit der Unternehmen aus der Gesundheitswirtschaft sehen mhealth-Anwendungen als einen innovativen Weg Gesundheitsdienstleistungen anzubieten. Als Folge erhöhte sich der Smartphone-Applikation basiert mHealth Markt um den Faktor 7 bis US $ 718 Millionen im Jahr 2011 zu erreichen.
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13 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): mHealth, smartphone, tablet PC
Teleprensa
“Los equipos de emergencias tendrán acceso inmediato a la historia clínica del paciente a través de un tablet. La Consejería de Salud ha puesto en marcha esta iniciativa que pretende facilitar la labor de los sanitarios en la atención a los pacientes tanto en sus domicilios como en la vía pública, así como en accidentes con múltiples víctimas o emergencias colectivas.
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12 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | EHR: EHR, EHR Spain | Tag(s): Access, emergency, mHealth, tablet PC
Diario Médico
“Seguro que la mañana del 6 de enero amaneció con miles de tabletas en los hogares españoles y de todo el mundo. El entusiasmo por este dispositivo, reconocido sobre todo en el iPad de Apple, también es extensible a la Sanidad, como se ha comprobado, por ejemplo, con la reciente adquisición de miles de estas herramientas en el Departamento de Asuntos de Veteranos o en el Hospital de Ottawa, en Canadá.
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10 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Hospitals, tablet PC
Justin Montgomery, Digital Marketing Blog
“Though tablet usage among healthcare providers remains a hot topic, it’s been revealed that less than 1 percent of hospitals currently have fully functional tablet systems in place as we enter the New Year.
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4 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adoption, Hospitals, tablet PC
Health & Wellbeing
“Tonic Health believe that switching from clipboards and paper forms to an interactive, game-like iPad interface is more enjoyable for patients, which therefore enables doctors to obtain higher response rates to surveys, better patient screening, and more accurate data, both cheaply and quickly.
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4 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Data, games, Industry, tablet PC
Cory Schultz, iMedicalApps
“Tablet technology continues to shakeup healthcare as many medical practices and dental offices are planning to spend thousands of dollars to buy the devices in 2012.
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3 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): mHealth, tablet PC
Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“Not long ago, I recently posted an item on HospitalEMRandEHR.com discussing how one hospital dropped plans to distribute iPads as front-ends for its Cerner EMR. Doctors at hospital, Seattle Children’s, gave the iPad very bad reviews as an EMR-connected device, in part because they felt that Cerner’s system was too hard to use via a Safari browser.
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17 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): tablet PC
Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek
“In case you’re questioning reports of a tablet epidemic in healthcare, take a look at stats from a QuantiaMD survey. Thirty percent of doctors use a tablet device, compared with just 5% of U.S. consumers, the online physicians’ forum said.
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13 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): mHealth, Physicians, tablet PC
Robert McMillan, Wired Enterprise
“Mark Cain got his big break on June 9, 2008. The chief technology officer at a little-known medical software company, MIM Software, Cain was invited onstage at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference to promote his company’s iPhone app, a way for doctors to view incredibly detailed scans of their patients.
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13 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Applications, Medical Apps, tablet PC
Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“In what its CEO billed as a development that “could finally drive global usage and adoption” of the technology, drchrono, which makes electronic health records for iPads, received meaningful use certification as an ambulatory EHR this past July.
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9 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Certification, tablet PC
