Apple’s Tablet for Healthcare
February 23, 2010 | Terry Sharrer
Bloggers are an interesting lot who sometimes hit the nail on the head. This piece contents that Apple’s iPhone was a springboard for the next thing to come, Apple’s Tablet. With hundreds of free, downloadable health and medical applications, doctors, nurses and patients alike gravitated to the device. The iPhone’s shortcoming, however, is that its processor and screen are too small to compute and display the data those applications captured. Thus the need for the Tablet, which, if it didn’t open on the market simultaneously with health care reform, did catch the wave of thinking that reform ought to strongly embrace electronic records. You decide whether this was by luck or marketing design. MORE