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You have to understand that the hospital environment has many constraints that make it a both unique, and difficult challenge for equipment makers.

Little things like flaky RF shielding or overpowered transmitters can make life hell for the doctors and nurses working in telemetry wards.

Care must be taken in case design to allow for quick and easy cleaning to avoid spreading of diseases via equipment. It's not like you can take your tablet pc and toss it in an autoclave!

There's also a question of form factor. Doctors work amazingly long shifts. I know i dislike carrying my current toshiba R15 for more than 30 minutes or so in tablet form. At 6 lbs, it's a bit chunky. No way I'd carry it through a 16 hour shift.

There are of course the advantages that a computerized order system brings. If implemented properly, it can offer up to date realtime tracking of patient charts, digital orders (which hopefully will cut down drastically on medical mistakes!), asset and personell tracking, and maybe even some niceties like drug interaction information, or various other physician references.

And that's before we've even covered the various things that only a tablet does even better than a standard laptop, like annontation, or image manipulation. This sort of thing could be a godsend when looking over x-ray imagery, or to zoom into cardiographs. How about some quick and dirty VISUAL dosage calculation, so the doctors don't have to struggle with math AND prescription at the same time?
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