Doctors: iNeed the iPad.
Doctors' diagnosis of iPad is looking good: for treatment, for diagnosing, and for education, the iPad is something that physicians want, says the LA Times. In short, iNeed the iPad is the message. With the iPhone having previously dominated the market, does this come as any big surprise? Not really. But how will it work?
A doctor walks into a patient's room and pulls out a thin, shiny tablet-like object. She begins to tap on it furiously, almost magically information about the patient appears before her eyes. Not knowing exactly what the most current medical research says about that patient's condition, she uses Safari to search PubMed. Then she uses the Epocrates app to determine whether the current medications her patient is on will interact with what she wants to prescribe for her patient's latest malady.
Sounds far fetched? Not with the new Apple iPad. "One in five doctors say they plan to buy an iPad", says the Los Angeles Times, according to a recent poll on Epocrates (admittedly not the most unbiased sample).
Some physicians have been quoted as saying that "medical apps on his iPhone indispensable" and the iPad is likely to be no different.
And what about learning via the iPad? Now, physicians, nurses and others now can get medical ethics education via the iPad. It's true! The Center for Practical Bioethics has launched an online training program in Clinical Ethics and Health Policy where students will receive video lectures, engage in online discussion and do everything one used to do via computer via--you guessed it--the iPad. It starts this September.
Summer Johnson, PhD
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