iPad is Fantastic!

Experts say iPad could revolutionize medicine, save billions.
The Washington Post (4/11, White) reported, "Medical-technology trade publications are getting positively Tiger Beat in their enthusiasm" over the new iPad. "Kaiser Permanente is testing uses for the device, a honcho at one of Harvard's main teaching hospitals has weighed in on his facility's iPad pilot program, and executives at Cedars-Sinai were rumored to have gotten prototypes last year." The Post noted that "if the iPad becomes as ubiquitous in medical facilities as the iPod is everywhere else, it could usher in billions of dollars in savings, according to Blackford Middleton, chairman of the Center for Information Technology Leadership and corporate director of Clinical Informatics Research & Development at Partners HealthCare System."