iPad = imagePad... Are they used? What apps are good?
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iPad = imagePad... Are they used? What apps are good?
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First up, I have to confess that I do not own an iPad (yet?). I am a dedicated Mac man with an iPhone, Macbook Pro and an iMac, but I just haven't been able to see the point of the iPad as well
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iPad = imagePad... Are they used? What apps are good?
posted at 5/4/2012 1:42 AM BST
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First up, I have to confess that I do not own an iPad (yet?). I am a dedicated Mac man with an iPhone, Macbook Pro and an iMac, but I just haven't been able to see the point of the iPad as well - until it replaces the 'phone capability of my iPhone and the portable processing and storage capability of my Macbook Pro. However, I can see that the day will arrive when there is so much you can do with the iPad that it will become yet another device that we can't have imagined living without. But what about it's clinical application? Connectivity, interactivity, portability are sure-fire features that will make the iPad (or any other high-powered tablet) a seemless part of the clinical imaging environment, particularly for the mobile clinician (less so for the resolution-obsessed radiologist). But what about functionality? Does anyone know of any hospitals around the world where they are already in use for imaging? Can anyone recommend any useful imaging apps? If Osirix is anything to go by from its other incarnations, it must be a winner. Steve Jobs (RIP) clearly had designs...  |
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Hospital already in using portable imaging
posted at 11/4/2012 3:44 AM BST
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In Response to your query concerning hospital using porable device imaging: We, in Taipei, Taiwan, Wanfang Medical Center had already been using portable device imaging for several months and we found it very useful in interactions between patient - doctor. We able to show images to the patients and open up documents to show patients our treatment of choice for them. Beside, we can immediately take notes of our discussions without the trouble of looking for paper and pens. Between collegues, it is even more convinient , we can have case discussion anywhere we are, in a very comfortable environment: eg. near-by coffee shop for example. Sincerely yours, Lee Wei Hao M.D. |
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Re: iPad = imagePad... Are they used? What apps are good?
posted at 15/4/2012 1:59 PM BST
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Apple is stupid. full stop. nothing else needs to be said. Want to buy something useful? Buy a normal computer. Cheaper and better in every way. Want an apple? Go and buy one from your local greengrocer. |
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Re: iPad = imagePad... Are they used? What apps are good?
posted at 15/4/2012 4:35 PM BST
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Everyone I know (not many people admittedly) uses iPads for catching up with television they have missed more than anything else. Trish Groves, a deputy editor here at the BMJ has a great keyboard and uses her iPad seriously, like a proper PC. I'd love to know how it can be used in hospitals- the Taiwan eg is very interesting but I wonder if there are others. |
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Re: iPad = imagePad... Are they used? What apps are good?
posted at 15/4/2012 9:09 PM BST
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I pad ok for communicating on Doc to Doc, but no spell checker. At home I use ipad with wifi more than desk top. Ipad more mobile. We go to Portugal in a week and ipad good to down load a film or two , ear piece each for me and my wife an we can watch film on easy jet flight. I tend to use ipad for internet chess at the moment. One ipad apps i down loaded 'floor plans' which was for doing layout of our Portuguese apartment. A scan app? scan Pro? Was fun but not very practical, I tried istethoscope but not much use. I dont use it a lot for Medical stuff. For iphone i use MIMS ap on iphone on home visits to check medications,this seems to work fine. I pad seems to be Turings ( ? Spelling? ) universal machine, so versitile. Oh and I pad fine as ipod when I go into surgery to catch up on paper work as I did today. |
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Re: iPad = imagePad... Are they used? What apps are good?
posted at 17/4/2012 4:39 PM BST
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I heard rumour of US radiologists sitting on beaches in the Caribbean reviewing imaging floated to their mobile devices across the fresh sea breeze... that would be pretty sweet. |
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