Hospital Outfits Staff with 100 iPads

A hospital district in Visalia, California, has ordered 100 iPads to provide staff with access to rudimentary applications like e-mail, as well as X-ray images, EKG results and patient monitoring programs around its five sites.

Nick Volosin, the hospital’s director of technical services, thinks the iPad is a superior alternative to both laptops and the specialized touchscreen tablets often used by hospitals — it’s portable, has a 10-hour battery life and costs merely $500 (other devices can fetch close to $3,000).

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