Although the buzz surrounding the Apple Tablet has become a load roar over the past weeks, we would be remiss if we didn’t highlight the fact that ConnTIP was talking about the Tablet, and its potential with the electronic medical records, close to a year ago (Electronic Medical Records to be “Apple-ized”?). If reports from VentureBeat are true, it looks like Apple is also thinking about such potential on EMR, as it reported earlier this month that “[r]epresentatives from Apple have visited executives for Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ‘three or four times’ to talk about the Apple tablet’s potential for medical professionals at Cedars-Sinai” (See Apple tablet reps spotted at LA hospital). Chris Thorman at Software Advice writes about the report here, and has a short, 8-question survey about the potential of Tablet-like product in the healthcare industry.
- Gregg J. Lallier
[...] the iPad was released, there was some speculation by this blog and some others that the iPad would likely have a strong tie-in with healthcare and [...]