Since it was announced, iPad has increasingly gained popularity among clinical communities and eHealthcare aficionados as something of a saviour - its long battery life, robust unibody construction and lightness are very welcome qualities for doctors and nurses on the move on hospital wards and field visits. This combined with a powerful processor, lean apps, e-enabling medical workflows will be a delightful thing to do. I am sure the development community will embrace these positives and come up with some brilliant applications.

Whilst waiting for native applications, some Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems like ClinicYou (www.clinicyou.com)can take advantage of what is already there as soon as the iPad is out of the box. Being a completely web based and cross-platform EMR and clinical practice management tool, ClinicYou should work well with the iPad. And since ClinicYou has a java engine for voice capture, clinicians can dictate medical documents on the go. ClinicYou’s voice capturing is fully integrated with EMR records, ensuring that the dictation goes into the right place in the medical record.

ClinicYou web-EMR is eagerly awaiting iPad. The future of effortless clinical charting, billing and collaboration is already very near.