Tey also double as clip board, possibly putting an end to endless,
and unreadable, scraps of paper. Welcome to the 21st century!
Stanford medical school is giving iPads to all its new incoming students this fall in order to cut down on paper costs.
The iPads have other advantages too. Here’s what Dr. Charles Prober, Stanford’s senior associate dean for medical education, told the San Francisco Chronicle:
I think the iPad will also be useful for these future doctors to explain to patients what medical conditions or surgeries look like. They can pull out the iPad in the exam room and enhance their explanations with diagrams or pictures. And they’ll always be able to have their medical school notes with them, even after they graduate. It’s impossible to do that with a textbook.
I talked last week to Dr. Cameron Powell, an obstetrician (no longer practicing) who co-founded Airstrip, which makes an iPhone/iPad App that lets doctors and nurses monitor a mother’s contractions and her baby’s heart rate during labor — at any time, from anywhere, as long as there’s a wireless connection.
Airstrip just raised its first venture funding (from Sequoia Capital, amount undisclosed), and was featured onstage last year at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference by Steve Jobs — even though Airstrip’s software runs natively on all mobile devices. But in the U.S., at least, over 80 percent of its business is on the iPhone, and the iPad is gaining fast.
