5 Useful iPad Apps for Doctors, Patients and Med Students. The days are gone when a doctor walked into a patient's room and grabbed the paper chart at the end of his bed to check his medical history. iPads and tablet computing have revolutionized the way many companies do business, and the medical field is no different.
The sharp, intuitive displays and interactive content of tablets naturally make doctor's visits a more collaborative process. Currently, a competitive market is emerging for both software and hardware companies. Doctors quick to adopt tablets into practice. When a patient enters an exam room at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s Downtown Health Plaza, a general internal medicine outpatient clinic in Winston-Salem, N.C., the visit starts out the usual way.
A nurse takes the patient’s vitals, reviews the medical record and says the doctor will be in shortly. What happens next was not typical even two years ago and shows the impact that tablet computers have had on practice life in a very short time. Before the nurse leaves the exam room, she hands the patient an Apple iPad and queues up one of more than 30 video modules, a choice made based on the patient’s condition or health concerns. The patient then passes the time between the nurse’s visit and the doctor’s arrival watching an educational video. Apple’s top 50 iPad apps for doctors. By Brian Dolan & Chris Gullo In September, Apple added a new section to its AppStore for healthcare professionals.
It has been an ongoing challenge for healthcare professionals to find useful apps for care settings. Tablet Use On The Rise Among Doctors.