[baran]

Although the medical iPad market appears compelling, I feel it's a bit of false hope for the industry. The problem was never the hardware - its always been the software.

With all the money being pumped into the industry we've created digital repositories of the paper records. Well now what do we do? In a perfect world we could share data between providers, maintain centralized records, etc. which would cut down costs and improve care. Although this appears trivial, data transfer in this industry is far from a reality.

The solution is software that actually solves a problem physicians are facing. Think this is difficult? Primary care physicians spent upwards of 50% of their day on non-patient care. These tasks include medication refills, referrals, evaluating labs, etc. The kicker the majority of this work could be outsourced to a computer - and your physician would be glad you did.