The last two years has seen the growth and rapid expansion of the Tablet computer market. Across the healthcare sector and in particular within the NHS, there has been a number of instances where iPads and tablets are being used or trialed within Trusts and Hospitals.  A recent news article highlighted an NHS Trust that would like iPads for its doctors due to the large amount of paperwork they have to carry around from patient to patient, and Great Ormond Street Hospital recently trialed iPads for e-prescribing. University Hospitals of Leicester is offering iPads on seven day loans to UHL staff, and only last week, Public Sector News reported on patients at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham being given iPads to occupy them whilst they were ‘under the knife’!

 

All this highlights the popularity of working with iPads within a healthcare environment as using an iPad in a clinical setting provides a number of benefits. It offers instant mobile access to current information, making it easier to collaborate with colleagues remotely, and access important information without having to look for a work station. Checking drug interactions and medical images, accessing medical databases, ebooks and ejournals, showing patients illustrations/pictures and information, and using online training packages, are also just some of the benefits for healthcare staff using iPads in their day to day working environment; an iPad gives you the internet and its wealth of resources and information at your fingertips.

 

Last month saw the launch of Gael’s first iPad App – Docs for iPad, which delivers a low cost, efficient method of accessing any document, any place, any time.  It allows a Q-Pulse user to take documents offline, search and filter through all documents that he or she has access to in Q-Pulse, and mark documents as a favourite for future speed of access. The App also enables you to maintain document control by having an acknowledge feature that supports electronic signature. In short; it allows a Q-Pulse user to have access to important information on the move and improves compliance, communication, and more importantly engagement, with the management system for mobile workers.

 

Find out more about Q-Pulse and Docs for iPad, and how they both could benefit your Trust, Health Board, or Hospital - contact us now.