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Health-4: Secret Plan To Steal Your Doctor’S Heart
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Dec 06 2011 10:20 PM | eds in Ed's Articles
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Fishman is one of a growing number of doctors
. . . who look at the iPad as an indispensable assistant
. . . to his medical practice.
He studies 50 to 100 CT scans per day on his tablet.
. . . Recently, he checked up on 20 patients in his Baltimore hospital
. . . while he was traveling in Las Vegas.
“What this iPad does is really extend my ability
. . . to be able to consult remotely anytime, anywhere,” he says.
. . . “Anytime I’m not at the hospital, I’m looking at the iPad.”
For some doctors at Johns Hopkins,
. . . the iPad can save an hour to an hour and a half per day
. . . time that would otherwise be spent
. . . on collecting paper printouts of medical images,
. . . or heading to computer workstations
. . . to look them up online.
Many doctors say that bringing an iPad to the bedside
. . . lets them administer a far more intimate and
. . . interactive level of care than they’d previously thought possible.
Even doctors who are using an iPad for the first time
. . . often become attached, Fishman says.
“Their biggest fear is . . . what if we took it away.”
. . . who look at the iPad as an indispensable assistant
. . . to his medical practice.
He studies 50 to 100 CT scans per day on his tablet.
. . . Recently, he checked up on 20 patients in his Baltimore hospital
. . . while he was traveling in Las Vegas.
“What this iPad does is really extend my ability
. . . to be able to consult remotely anytime, anywhere,” he says.
. . . “Anytime I’m not at the hospital, I’m looking at the iPad.”
For some doctors at Johns Hopkins,
. . . the iPad can save an hour to an hour and a half per day
. . . time that would otherwise be spent
. . . on collecting paper printouts of medical images,
. . . or heading to computer workstations
. . . to look them up online.
Many doctors say that bringing an iPad to the bedside
. . . lets them administer a far more intimate and
. . . interactive level of care than they’d previously thought possible.
Even doctors who are using an iPad for the first time
. . . often become attached, Fishman says.
“Their biggest fear is . . . what if we took it away.”
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Doctor.jpgIt’s a story that’s been repeated again and again
. . . in small-scale projects at hospitals everywhere
. . . since the iPad’s April 2010 launch.
Now, some of those hospitals are getting ready
. . . for some really big rollouts.
In October, the Veterans Administration started soliciting bids
. . . from contractors to help them manage as many as
. . . 100,000 tablet users across its network of 152 hospitals.
The VA has just about 1,500 iPads in limited trials right now
. . . most of them in its Washington, D.C., hospital.
. . . But if things go as planned,
. . . the VA, with a staff of 315,000,
. . . could easily be managing many more devices in a year’s time.
“We are the largest medical training organization in the country.
. . . . We bring in 115,000 medical residents every year
. . . to help us provide care to veterans,” says Roger Baker,
. . . the VA’s chief information officer.
“A large number of those folks come in with a mobile device and
. . . they want to know why they can’t just use that.”
