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Bedside care is a vital part of health care professionals' relationships with their patients at the hospital. But the staff at hospital found that modern technology sometimes made those interactions more difficult. When Apple introduced iPad, physicians at the hospital knew they'd found a solution.

A custom iPad app enables physicians and nurses to perform important tasks from the bedside, increasing time spent with patients and improving relationships.

The inability to bring information to the bedside meant physicians had to constantly shuttle between patients and tethered PCs to get status updates, schedule surgeries, prescribe drugs, view X-rays, and perform other important tasks. Since the introduction of technology in this industry physicians have been tethered to devices like PCs and forced to go seek information. Even a laptop wasn't truly mobile.

With iPad, the hospital's doctors and nurses have bedside access to everything they need, and can remain in contact with patients and their families while viewing information that is critical to their care. They can answer patients' questions immediately and make decisions about what's going to be done, with the most current information available. Nothing beats being able to use an app to pull up an X-ray on the device.

Not only has iPad increased efficiency from a provider perspective—it's increased engagement between the provider and patient.