Tablets Unleashed

After Restaurants, and Airlines, it is now the turn for a Hospital – iPads are now being used in the health care sector. Doctors at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital believe that iPads help patients admitted in the hospital to cope with their treatments.

Tyler Robetrson, a child specialist at the hospital opined that iPad can help the treatment process in three ways. “Education, Distraction and Preparation”. He citied an example where iPad was used to let a young patient know a bit about kidneys in the pediatric kidney dialysis unit. This way the patient has an idea of the organ, the likely diseases and ways to overcome them.

There is also a report from Japan that iPad helped doctors during a surgical operation.The iPad was carried to the operation theater wrapped in a sterile transparent material.The doctors had used pinch to zoom feature of the iPad to have a detailed 3D view of the PACS images so that they have a better idea of the actual condition of the patient and help them guide the scalpels to save the patients life.

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A two year old dolphin named Merlin uses the ipad to communicate with his trainers. The quite curious Merlin, who showed complete willingness to examine the iPad is the first of his species to join the Apple iPad community.

Research scientist Jack Kassewitz, at Dolphin Discovery’s dolphin swim facility in Puerto Aventuras, Mexico, working on building a language interface between humans and dolphins . . . → Continue reading Dolphin uses iPad to communicate with trainers