A number of recent surveys have indicated that the Apple iPad is the number one choice for healthcare professionals when it comes to choosing a tablet.

This is hardly surprising given the head start the iPad has had compared to its competitors and the significant development that has gone into medical apps for the iOS platform.

This article will attempt to help decide which particular iPad is the best choice for a healthcare professional who wants to use it as part of their daily workflow.

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Digital records management is driving most medical practices in the Boise area to rapidly adopt tablets in their practice. Tablets provide a simple and secure means of inputting patient information while dramatically lowering the total cost of ownership of the digital technology. Not only does a practitioner benefit from compliance however, they also benefit in significant cost-savings froma  reduction of hours in  performing manual input of patient information, but also paper and toner costs.

Your practice software is specific and has requiremetns to sync the data (I can help you clear the fog), but for many types of practices it simply does not need the integration. Chiropractors, dentists and home healthcare are a few that benefit fro common off-the-shelf apps like these:

• OnPatient
• Rounds List

Let me know if I can help. George Seybold 208-631-1646

“When customers see it, they either say ‘What is that cool device?’ or ‘Hey, that’s Square,’ ” says Mendoza, 32, who used to struggle with a bulky payment device that was slow to pay him and hard to store records on.

Within a week of using Square, Mendoza was sold on the device — as were his customers, many of whom would rather pay with a credit card instead of cash. “I wanted simple, and got it,” says the cab driver.

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Microsoft, lumbering giant that it is, is reportedly arriving late to the iPad party with a version of its Office document editing suite in 2012, according to The Daily. But at this point, I’m wondering whether iOS users would covet an official Office solution from Microsoft, or whether the possibility leaves you indifferent.

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As with most technologists we tend to bumble into some good things while trying to find the better way to do things. One day about 6 years ago I found myself with a Mac on my desk. I recalled looking at them before and thinking how juvenile they were in practice and how wonderful they were in some’s mind.

So this little PowerPC Mac Mini was setup rather swiftly and OS X came alive on my desktop. It was exciting to try something new because Windows had become unbearable. I was running free without corporate governance all over my desktop and I felt free again.

Steve and I met through the machine he conceived, but I had no idea the impact he would have on my life as I connected my own dots. As Weyerhaeuser laid off workers and I became unemployed I adopted his latest device, the iPhone, and the MacBook Pro became my machine of choice. I had lived the hell of IT intensive Windows machines and was determined to avoid the creation of my own personal hell.

Steve and I walked for three years as I grew and ultimately shuttered my business. But it was not due to the technology, but because of my poor business skills. I learned though. I learned what worked in IT and what kept IT people employed.

I took a position with Verizon Wireless in a retail store with the fore-knowledge that we would soon, very likely be carrying the iPhone. There was no hope, in my opinion, for a long-term sustainable business with Verizon Wireless unless we got the iPhone and the iPad. Nothing measured up.

When Verizon Wireless took on the iPhone and the iPad the world changed. We were no longer the reluctant choice, but the favored one. And to this point I want to thank Steve.

Steve has been such a mentor to me, but never knew me. His style, his intensity and his desire to be best was undeniable. I have worked to study him and his ways. I’ve watched so many videos of him I’ve lost track. He was my mentor and in someways he was my friend.

I wish I could have known him although in gifts I had nothing he would have needed. I wish I could have told him thank you for being and that I wanted nothing from him. I owe him my livelihood, as without him I would not have the job I have now. I owe him the food I feed my family, as without him they would be less full.

I lost a friend when Steve passed. I lost a mentor and the hole is real. Some may find me odd or foolish, but to me it is real and I pray that he has found some unimaginable joy on the other side. Even God uses an iPad I can imagine.