Over at my other home MyRealityTech.com, there are two posts I want to draw your attention to.
My mind has been blown by many innovations in technology recently, especially in the iPad, so much so I wrote about it: How the iPad Can Change the Human Race: Healthcare
Also, I had the the honor of speaking with Udoka Chima, of Chima Designs, creator of the awesome Crucial Case for iPad, and reviewed it as well. Also, MyRealityTech.com is hosting a giveaway of 5 of these versatile cases!: The Crucial Case for iPad by Chima Designs: A Reality Review and Giveaway
Now off to bed, as I work my first day shift in months. Wish me luck!
Patient Education – This one has been going on for years already thanks to the invention of Wikipedia. Interestingly the miniscule amount of knowledge gained through self-research doesn’t seem to ease the patient’s mind so much as make them think they are suddenly qualified to know better than a doctor with decades of medical experience, a curious human phenomenon which vaguely reminds me of the one where people take unnecessary risks to compensate for the extra safety of a car they’ve been provided.
The creditability of healthcare apps is also dubious at best. Again, we’ve had all those functions for years (deathclocks, Wii exercise) and they’re all highly suspect. Call me a blind old man, but to me your suggestions are reckless, and border on turning a place of scientific fact into a circus. If the line “it can help to enhance quality of living and ultimately save lives” had been said by anyone else, I’d swear they’d been paid off.
Love the iPad. I don't have one YET but I will!
Visiting from the Southern Mom Bloggers via Mom Bloggers Club. I'm a GA gal too!
Here is the thing about Apps and information for the iPad for healthcare, we don't use wikipedia in the healthcare setting. We don't use google.
We have specific, subscription based services that are collections of data from legitament sources with credible information. The apps needed to facilitate this process would be deisgned, geared-toward, and paid for by the specific provider that would be using it.
Basically, I wouldn't google wound care and show the patien a wiki about it. I would have a specific resource with factual, credible information that I would use.
The biggest thing that makes the iPad a more useful tool that stand computers/tablets is its extreame portability and easy of use. Naturally, specific software would have to be enginered for it.
Come on Drake, give me a little credit on this. I promise I wouldnt just google your healthcare ailement and spout off whatever the top search result says. I value my credibility, your health, my license, and my integrity more than that!
The iPad can help to make information available more easily, that is my point really.
And Marvelous Mommy, howdy! You will love your iPad. Let me know what you think of it and thansk for stopping by. I'll have to browse your bloggy goodness after work tonight!