The iPad in Healthcare Settings
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Some examples of the iPad in healthcare settings.
Boston, MA: Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital (BIDMC) hospitalist Dr. Henry Feldman has been using his own personal iPad while making his rounds, according to a report in iMedicalApps. Feldman, who is also the Chief Information Architect for the Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians, said he uses his iPad for five applications at the hospital: WebOMR (BIDMC’s EHR), POE (BIDMC’s CPOE), Personalized Team Census (signout), E-Ticket (billing), web-based paging, and the BIDMC emergency department (ED) dashboard. While Feldman reported a few “occasional quirks,” he said the fact that these applications are all web-based means they run almost perfectly on his iPad.
St. Louis, MO: Children’s Hospital currently has two iPads it uses for three primary purposes: Education, distraction and preparation, according to a local news report. Children’s Hospital’s Tyler Robertson, a child life specialist who helps patients manage stress during their stay, uses the iPads to show patients how physicians prepare for surgery; to play games with patients; and to educate them about their procedures or conditions. Children’s plans to up its iPad count to 15: One for each child specialist on staff.
Visalia, CA: Kaweah Delta Health Care’s director of technical services, Nick Volosin has been piloting three Apple iPads for X-ray images, EKG results and other patient monitoring programs, according to a report from Network World. Volosin plans to buy 100 more iPads for use by the care group’s home health and hospice care workers, nurses, dietitians and pharmacists.
Kobe, Hyogo, Japan: Kobe University medical center recently posted a video of a team of doctors at the hospital using an iPad as a display during a surgery. A physician or an assistant used the iPad to zoom in and out of images on the device’s screen during the procedure. Of course, the setup was less than ideal. The device was wrapped in plastic and required two people to operate: One to hold it in place and one to navigate the screen for doctors.
Los Angeles, CA: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s CIO Darren Dworkin hopes that the iPad will be the “next evolution in sharing information with patients," according to a report in USA Today. Dworkin is keen on his doctors learning to enter information into a screen that doesn’t require them to turn their backs on patients, like COWs or desktop computers typically do. At the time of the interview earlier this year, Cedars-Sinai already had a dozen iPads out making the rounds with its doctors. Ormond Beach, Florida: Florida Hospital-Oceanside uses an iPad to conduct speech therapy with stroke victims. The care group uses iPad/iPhone app Proloquo2Go to enable patients to speak through the devices to their care team.
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