By: iPadfanzz staff on November 10, 2012
A poll of doctors by medical app developer Epocrates has revealed that the iPad mini was top on wishlist of gadgets.
Over 90 per cent respondents said the iPad’s dimension, which is “as thin as a pencil’’ (it is 7.87 inches tall by 5.3 inches wide) was the top reason to purchase the tablet since it can easily fit into the standard lab coat pocket.
Epocrates’ survey took place when the iPad mini was still a rumor, but still a majority of them showed willingness to purchase the tablet.
Forrester technology analyst Sarah Rotman Epps also notes that the tablet would immediately strike a chord with healthcare providers because carrying a full-sized iPad isn’t practical and a smaller device could prove useful when moving around the hospital.
Already, tablets are highly popular with medical professionals as a lot of them said they used tablets at the point of care. Some of the categories where the US physicians used iPads were: EHRs, to view radiology images, and communicate with patients at that time.
The use of tablets has almost doubled since 2011, reaching 62 per cent this year, with the iPad as the dominant device. Even the earlier versions of the tablets are popular among physicians who use it to photograph wounds in order to keep a visual record during treatment, for instance.
A poll of doctors by medical app developer Epocrates has revealed that the iPad mini was top on wishlist of gadgets.
Over 90 per cent respondents said the iPad’s dimension, which is “as thin as a pencil’’ (it is 7.87 inches tall by 5.3 inches wide) was the top reason to purchase the tablet since it can easily fit into the standard lab coat pocket.
Epocrates’ survey took place when the iPad mini was still a rumor, but still a majority of them showed willingness to purchase the tablet.
Forrester technology analyst Sarah Rotman Epps also notes that the tablet would immediately strike a chord with healthcare providers because carrying a full-sized iPad isn’t practical and a smaller device could prove useful when moving around the hospital.
Already, tablets are highly popular with medical professionals as a lot of them said they used tablets at the point of care. Some of the categories where the US physicians used iPads were: EHRs, to view radiology images, and communicate with patients at that time.
The use of tablets has almost doubled since 2011, reaching 62 per cent this year, with the iPad as the dominant device. Even the earlier versions of the tablets are popular among physicians who use it to photograph wounds in order to keep a visual record during treatment, for instance.