iPads are becoming as important to doctors as their stethoscopes

iPhone will not substitute de estethoscope, that is in fact already substitute by the hand-held Ultrasound devices. iMedicine will cover everything from prescription, to diagnosis, to EHR, to vademecum, to triage, etc.

And guess who is on the forefront of iPad EHR technology...Drchrono.

Pretty scary that doctors in the US have to carry around Google

We write all our own software here at BIDMC. Our ehr is web based (and meaningful use certified) so the iPad is a viewer for that (also makes security simpler).

All the other apps aren't technically part of the ehr.

I first read about Doctors using iPads (which seems so logical to me as an incredibly useful tool) from Doctor kevinmd.com. I remember when tablets first started coming out that the medical world argued that these devices would not be used anytime soon due to regulations taking to long to catch up. How is the industry getting past these blockades to tech advancement. Is it because the iPads are being used as viewing devices and document tools rather than actual medical devices? Just curious.

I am the hospitalist in the video, and I use my iPad continuously on the wards. The thing just works, and works well. I charge it sunday night, and recharge on thursday night on a 1 week shift. Having a high-res anatomy textbook, full EHR/POE access, PACS imaging, email/scheduling, the odd round of angry birds for meetings, drawing tools, word processing and ability to give presentations all in my hand is amazing. I am also one of the programmers here, and we're working on native clients now, but that's for doing really cool stuff (like graphical charting, data analysis, etc...)

not surprising, hospitals were trying to do this with Palm devices, Windows CE devices before. They all sort of work, but I guess iPad is the first platform that really worked for them.