Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), has a very ambitious plan to increase sales of iPad tablets, which have been in continuous decline for several years. Those from Cupertino want to convince the hospitals to have a tablet each iPad for each patient who is treated for various diseases, the idea of those from Cupertino being not only extremely ambitious, but also very expensive for American hospitals and not only.
Apple knows that iPad tablets are used daily by doctors in American hospitals, but now a regional program in the US brings them into the hands of patients. They have the opportunity to see on the iPad tablets their medical history, plus other information regarding the treatments they receive, but the functionality is in some cases much more extensive.
Some hospitals in the US have tested programs of this kind in the past, but only when they switched to iPad tablets did they manage to obtain impressive results. The use of iPad tablets has reduced the number of mistakes made by hospital employees, expanded the amount of information that patients can see and saved employees from doing double work to catalog important information.
"Without the iPad, doctors and nurses have to follow a paper trail and then write up duplicate information on a white board often found on the back wall in the patient's room. Mistakes can happen and, as Cedars-Sinai doctor Shaun Miller told me, the staff often run out of room to write, leading to confusion or a lack of information for the patient."
Because I also told you about different uses for iPad tablets, in the neonatology department iPad tablets are used to see their newborns via FaceTime. We are talking here about sick children, or children born prematurely, who are isolated from the rest of the patients and implicitly from their parents, the latter being able to see them with the help of FaceTime and iPad tablets, the doctors and nurses calling this process BabyTime.
"New parents are using unmodified iPads to FaceTime with their newborns who may be sick or premature. These babies need to be kept isolated from the outside world and the germs that come with it so new parents aren't usually able to see their baby for a few days after they are born. But, with what the nurses refer to as BabyTime (FaceTime for babies), parents can interact virtually with their little one while they wait."
We are talking about a very complex and very interesting program that several hospitals in the US are currently running with the help of those from Apple, and that's how we see how advanced things are there.
