Enabling EMR systems on tablets might produce a ‘wow’ factor to patients and doctors but at the moment there are still some obstacles that need to be overcome as mentioned in the following article: Obstacles To Using Tablets As EMR Front Ends
Author: Stephen Leung
No App For Hospitals?
Although tablets are very common in our day to day lives, for applying them to the hospital still requires a lot of re-design, as mentioned in the following article from Kaiser Health News For Hospitals, There’s No App For That – Kaiser Health News
Management of mobile devices in Healthcare
While users in healthcare environment is driving the implementation of EMR and healthcare systems to mobile platform. One of major challenge is how you manage the mix of different devices, as mentioned in the following article: Do your mobile devices play nicely?
Mobile EMR considerations
When you want to put your EMR to mobile platform, just plainly virtualizing the desktop version to mobile platform won’t work, see the article in the following link: iPads Out, “Zero Clients” In