Dr John Halamka endorses Apple iPad at iPad 2 launch event
The original iPad, which launched early last year, proved to be a hit with physicians — some 22 percent of US docs were using iPads at the end of 2010, according to Chilmark Research. This morning Apple launched the iPad 2, a thinner, lighter version of the popular tablet device, which now includes two cameras, gyroscope, dual core A5 processor and more. It also features more of the same: Still $499 and the battery life is still 10 hours. As is tradition, and despite being on medical leave, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the new device from the keynote stage in Cupertino, California.
A few minutes into Jobs’ talk (and before the iPad 2 was debuted), he played a video that chronicled the iPad’s adoption and uptake in various vertical markets during the past year. The second “vertical” featured? Medicine.“
Sometimes doctors are overhwhelmed with data,” Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO Dr. John Halamka said during the video. “What we have tried to do with the iPad is to give doctors at the point of care the tools they need at the exact moment the doctor can make a difference. We’re finding with the iPad doctors are spending more times with patients. In fact, doctors are engaging patients by showing them images, showing them data on the screen. So it has empowered doctors to be more productive but it has also brought doctors and patients together.”
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