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What Can The New iPad Do For Healthcare?
It brings users a realistic experience with incredible image quality, rapid world-building, and precise object positioning. These AR apps allow the user to interact with multiple people within the environment, which makes an iPad a suitable tool for the next-generation video-conferencing. For instance, the Harris Health System in Texas has already implemented iPads to provide quick access to translators for patients who don’t speak English or can explain their condition better in another language. iPads are particularly useful in 2020, with the coronavirus pandemic landing thousands in hospitals and cutting people’s ability to communicate with their loved ones face-to-face. iPads also aid medical staff during end-of-life situations when relatives cannot be physically present in the room due to the virus. For a patient’s loved ones, it is most frequently crucial to be present during the person’s final moments, to comfort them and give themselves the ability to process the individual’s passing in a healthy way.
It partially resolves the problem of staffing caused by the pandemic since it increases the number of healthcare providers who can give their opinions on specific cases and even perform patient consultations. iPads help people in isolation keep in touch with their families, and this technology also enables doctors who cannot be physically present at the hospital to make their contribution.
Apple’s top 50 iPad apps for doctors
While a handful of blogs exist with recommendations from individual medical students or physicians, Happtique has emerged as a filtered medical app store of sorts that intends to make it easier for healthcare facilities to distribute apps. Unfortunately, this iTunes room, this special healthcare apps section for medical professionals is not very easy to find. Finally, the original intent of Apple’s medical category was for it to be a section of apps for healthcare professionals.
The curation of the section was poor, however, and today it offers thousands of apps intended for use by consumers — many of which aren’t even health-related. WebMD’s iPad app for consumers includes a symptom checker, drug & treatment information, first aid essentials, and local health listings. It includes a drug interaction checker, procedure reference, and daily medical news updates.
Which version iPad should doctors buy?
This is hardly surprising given the head start the iPad has had compared to its competitors (read more here) and the significant development that has gone into medical apps for the iOS platform. This article will attempt to help decide which particular iPad is the best choice for a healthcare professional who wants to use it as part of their daily workflow. Apps such as Dropbox store the majority of documents online, however, they still require some local storage in order to display the files. Essentially, if your hospital or workplace has excellent connectivity, the greater you will be able to rely on cloud based storage services such as Dropbox. If your hospital has a number of deadspots or you are based in the community then chances are you will want to make greater use of local storage to ensure you have access to all your documents regardless of internet connectivity. Users who are keen to store lots of documents locally and other media such as videos and photos may find that this model suits their needs better.
Although not strictly medical, this info graphic from gizmodo helps illustrate the different storage sizes available. Connectivity is an integral part of many medical apps which often store information online and download it as and when required.
Having considered each of these three main points, it is clear that the iPad recommended for healthcare professionals is the 32GB Wi-Fi + 3G model.
Is Your Doctor’s iPad Good For Your Health?
Washington, D.C. orthopedic surgeon Felasfa Wodajo wrote in 2010 about one iPad sterilization procedure for the operating room: plastic baggies. Wodajo, who uses iPads in the operating room, inserts the tablets into X-ray cassette sterile bags and then clamps the top opening with a hemostat. OsiriX can be used in conjunction with Dropbox by medical professionals for sharing of patient data, a popular option in many hospitals and private practices.
iPads In Health And Medicine: More Than An Information Revolution?
However, recent reports suggest the touch tablet devices could be doing more than was originally intended, driven by a pressure for change that is is coming from users, as health care providers seize the new tool with renewed passion, and demand more from the technologists. At Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, clinicians use iPads to access up-to-date clinical information before and during patient consultations.
In fact, it appears that once they have tasted their value, the main thing holding back budget holders from purchasing more of these versatile, handy gadgets, is how to keep them securely inside the hospital.
Back in 2008 they appointed a new chief information officer, Dale Potter, a man with little professional experience in health care but a strong background in IT.
What they needed was what Potter called a more “practical and elegant” solution to support the mobile work flow of the hospital staff. Potter recalls their response was, “How quickly can we get these?” So he took a big career risk, battling arguments that the devices were just glorified toys, and bought over 1,000 iPads. The nurse hands the patient the iPad showing a map of the human body and asks them to touch the screen at the place where they feel the most pain. Because the iPad is primarily a consumer tool, its system’s administrative rights aren’t strong to allow them to do things like control images remotely. So, Potter and his team are looking to test a speech-based entry system based on Dragon Mobile Medical Recorder from Nuance Healthcare. At first it was just a tool that students brought with them of their own initiative: but more and more medical schools are now switching to iPad as the main platform for delivering the curriculum. But, what starts out as an initiative to make campuses greener, is beginning to deliver other unexpected benefits, such as cost savings and improvements to the learning process itself. Assistant Dean for Curriculum, Dr Mike Schwartz, said in an interview for the Winter 2012 issue of the School’s Alumni Bulletin Yale Medicine that it costs about $1,000 per student to provide paper copies of course materials.
She appreciates having all the material at her fingertips when she is attending a lecture, and she welcomes the iPad’s portability: “I travel a lot, and I used to bring paper copies of everything with me to study on the road. “Using it to take notes in class was their baseline goal, but we quickly exceeded that,” said Bergfeld, explaining how for instance in the pathology lab the iPads allowed for greater collaboration between the instructor and students, who were able to answer survey questions and draw on slides in real time, “It made the class a lot more interactive, a lot more fun.” Yale is not the only medical school introducing iPads. In a December 2011 article published by iMedicalApps, Dr. Shaival Kapadia, a Cardiologist at St. Francis Medical Center, a Bon Secours facility in Virginia, explained why this app is so popular: “The nurse runs the EKG, processes it, and instantly it’s pushed to your phone. It allows them to show detailed areas of bone system to their patients and students, making it much easier to explain conditions, ailments and injuries.
Another impressive app is Medscape Mobile, a huge free resource from WebMD and available on several platforms, including iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android and Blackberry. In 2010, the iMedicalApps Team voted it their number one because: “The amount of free content provided by Medscape is absolutely mind boggling and seems to continuously grow with each update.
A recent study led by Dr Mark McEntee, from the Discipline of Medical Radiation Sciences at the University of Sydney in Australia, found that the iPad is as good as a standard LCD computer screen when used as a secondary display device, such as those doctors refer to as they do their rounds in patient wards. McEntee, and colleagues compared how well iPads performed against LCD secondary display monitors for helping to identify lung nodules on chest x-rays, intracranial bleeds and fractures. But, while the study gives the rubber stamp to using iPads as communication aids, helping doctors and patients look at images together, the ease of doing so needs to be balanced against the risk of starting to treat the device as a diagnostic tool. McEntee says in a recent press release: “When no primary display device exists, diagnoses can be carried out on a secondary display device, such as an iPad, but this is only in the most urgent of cases, for example to determine whether a patient is suffering from an intra-cranial bleed.” There are also strict guidelines to ensure best practice when reading X-rays and other images on an iPad or tablet. Other major new features that should be useful in medical applications include a faster A5X chip processor, which apparently allows the new iPad to have twice the performance of the iPad2 (essential for driving a high-resolution display); and a 5-megapixel camera with 1080-resolution for video with image stabilization.
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