Originally Posted by rayxi

Easy. Four in five doctors know not to buy an iPad.

Here's an interesting excerpt from the article:

"Let's say you had a graph of the patient's blood sugar over time," Luo said. "You could show those graphs to the patient pretty easily. You would just sort of pull it up on your electronic medical record and hand the screen to the patient."

Very cool. Now what if the patient asks for a copy to take home? The solution is not very cool and certainly not "magical and revolutionary".




My family doctor shows me charts all the time. If I ask for a copy it's waiting for me at reception when I leave. Same goes for lab requisitions. He uses a notebook. When you get past the cool factor and it comes down to actually doing something useful from end to end, not just half way, the iPad just doesn't stack up.