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With last week’s introduction of Apple’s much anticipated tablet computer, the iPad, the tech pundits are all trying to make sense of where a device like this fits in the spectrum of computer gadgetry. Steve Jobs tried to place the iPad somewhere between the smartphone and the laptop computer; a platform optimized for the consumption of content. Others have dismissed the iPad as a device with no place, or with only limited appeal. Is it an eReader, a mobile internet device, a media player, a netbook killer? Has the Apple iPad changed the notion of what tablet computing should be, or could be, or will it fall flat like every other tablet before it? And, from my perspective, does the iPad stand a chance as a viable platform for HIT? Obviously the iPad is not available yet, but based on Apple’s presentation and the early (albeit limited) impressions of the few who have handled one, I believe the iPad may represent the best chance yet to change the nature of tablet computing, especially as it relates to healthcare.
