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Tablet Computing is the future of medical notes

June 24th, 2010 |

Author: sholto

iPad has a brilliant resolution

The launch of the iPad has changed the frame of debate about mobile computing and medical devices. The combination of portability, screen resolution and long battery life is going to make this form factor the best for medicine and even radiology going forward.

Will it be the iPad or another product? I bet it will not be the Apple tablet but one of coming Android based tablets that will win as the Apple ecosystem will be too narrow for software developers or even the hardware vendors such as Dell who are aggressively targeting the medical industry. Dell has already launched its first tablet computer on the Android

Dell's Streak Tablet

What will matter to medical professionals is ease of use, reliability and price. With the ubiquity of electronic medical records software and electronic health records and the networking of medical information as digital assets, a tablet computer provides the power and versatility of the PC with the form factor of the touchscreen.

You can easily envisage a doctor sitting beside a patient and showing a scan to them on a tablet, zooming in with a finger swipe and helping the patient understand the condition.