Future iPad applications or just wishful thinking?

Filed in archive Technology on July 18, 2010

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While the vast majority of us will use the iPad for watching movies, reading books, and social networking, the iPad could cure some serious data management issues in the medical field. With most hospitals moving away from paper records and complicated software systems, an easy to use platform would speed up patient record access for doctors and nurses. The iPad is the perfect tool. With its voice recording ability and its phone capability, one can well imagine its value for dictating medical information and sending prescriptions and files at the touch of a button, or is that a swipe of the finger?

While most of us have seen a host send our food order to the kitchen, the iPad could also be used as a visual and perhaps interactive restaurant menu. Maybe customers could also spy into the kitchen and see their meal being prepared. That would be a wake up call for the improvement in kitchen standards.

And last but not least, the Wall Street Journal has already announced an iPad subscription service. It certainly beats trying to read your online newspaper on a small iPhone screen.

These and other iPad application developments are coming to an Apple store near you.

We would love to hear of any other business uses for the iPad that you know about.