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Hospital uses iPads to help moms stay in contact with newborns

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 8th, 2013)

As part of a program called BabyTime, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles recently deployed iPads in its neonatal intensive care unit to enable mothers to see their newborns and interact with hospital staff when they can't do so in person. Infants are typically placed in the NICU when ...

iRobot's mobile medical telepresence robot controlled by iPad app

by Steven Sande (Nov 19th, 2012)

Massachusetts-based iRobot is probably best known for introducing robotics into the home in the form of the popular scurrying Roomba vacuuming robots, but the company also has its hands in many other markets as well. The company recently introduced RP-VITA, a telepresence robot that takes the ...

New medical iPad platform reduces patient check-in time

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 17th, 2012)

NIIT Healthcare Technologies of Orlando, Florida introduced a mobile platform that'll speed up check-in times, improve communication and help process payments for hospitals, physician offices, clinics and laboratories. Called MASH for manage, analyze, sustain and harness, the product lets ...

How the iPad is succeeding in healthcare

by Mike Schramm (Dec 5th, 2011)

Wired has posted a profile of one Afshad Mistri, an Apple employee whose goal is quite focused. As the medical market manager, he's tasked with connecting medical professionals and Apple's technology. Mistri couldn't chat with Wired for the article itself (Apple's less-than-press-friendly ...

iTriage 3.0 adds live wait times for acute care facilities, medicine information and more

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Aug 19th, 2011)

When TUAW last talked with the folks behind iTriage, it was shortly before World Health Day in 2010, and the app had just updated to version 2.0 with a version for Android. A little more than 16 months later, iTriage has hit version 3.0 with a plethora of changes and new features such ...

iPhone and iPad are preferred by physicians says survey

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 16th, 2011)

Next time you visit your doctor and poke around his or her office, chances are you'll see an iPhone or an iPad lying around. A survey of 3,700 physicians by QuantiaMD reveals the iPad and the iPhone are the preferred mobile devices among those in the medical profession. According to the ...

1,800 iPads on the way to Ottawa Hospital

by Steven Sande (Apr 21st, 2011)

The Canadian Broadcasting Company is reporting that the Ottawa Hospital, which already has about 500 Apple tablets being used by health-care providers, has recently ordered another 1,800 iPads to replace paper medical charts. Doctors at the facility currently use iPads to examine X-rays, ...

iPads headed into operating rooms along with surgeons

by David Quilty (Dec 6th, 2010)

While some hospitals are eying the iPad as a way of going paperless with patient records, Georgetown University is already putting them directly in the operating room and into the hands of its surgeons. Offering real-time access to records and images of patients while inside the operating room, ...

Australia election campaign promises iPads in every hospital

by David Quilty (Nov 15th, 2010)

In what I can comfortably say is a previously unimagined application, the iPad is now being used as an election promise to entice voters in Australia. ZDNet notes that the promise was made last week by Victorian Premier John Brumby as part of a proposed new state health policy, which would see iPads ...

iTriage provides mobile health advice with style

by Michael Rose (Apr 8th, 2010)

As the clock ticks down on World Health Day, there's an app that we should tell you about: the free iTriage 2.0 for iPhone (now also available for Android, and with a version coming soon for iPad). It's a provider locator, a symptom and disease database, and more. The iTriage story is intriguing ...

My ridiculously convenient iPad set-up

by Erica Sadun (Apr 5th, 2010)

What happens when an object in motion meets an immovable object? Let me put that another way. Instead of "object in motion," think: "girl skiing." Instead of "immovable object," think "tree." The outcome? A big old "OUCH!", a number of broken bones, and quite a bit of time to be spent at the ...