[haribilalic]

I've worked on an iPad app targeted at an entire state's hospitals.

Doctors, particularly specialists that travel, love their iPhones. They love tablets/iPads. You don't need to convince them. You need to convince the accountants, insurers and lawyers.

[arn]

Regardless of the interface? You seem to be saying that if an app is on an iPad, doctors will blindly love it (and it can't have a bad interface, which is obviously not true)

[haribilalic]

Drchrono isn't any uglier than what a lot of doctors using now. There's software out there that continues to use the blue and grey DOS style interface.

The hardware is the killer app here. The iPad and other tablets like it are off-the-shelf blank slates that cost less than $1,000 and run all day.

There are already proprietary tablets in the medical world, but they can cost thousands more per unit than the iPad and you're stuck with the software that's already on it.

You can go out and buy an iPad today and have electronic health records, medical imaging viewers, medical references and can move towards paperless environment for under five figures per year.