Although I have a week to wait to get one (the 3G-enabled + WiFi), the iPad WiFis are starting to encroach upon e-health as a realm of future dominance.

A hospital district in Visalia, California, has ordered 100 iPads to provide staff with access to rudimentary applications like e-mail, as well as X-ray images, EKG results and patient monitoring programs around its five sites.

Nick Volosin, the hospital’s director of technical services, thinks the iPad is a superior alternative to both laptops and the specialized touchscreen tablets often used by hospitals — it’s portable, has a 10-hour battery life and costs merely $500 (other devices can fetch close to $3,000).

Many training programs and health systems have incorporated the iPhone (by virtue of its rich app interface) into the traditional medical-administrative workflow for quite a while now; who’s to say that an oversized 3G-enabled iPhone (that just happens be an iPad) couldn’t do the trick? | LINK

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