There’s an electronic change sweeping medicine and it’s called the iPad.

One of the biggest advantages for using the iPad inside hospitals for example, is that nowadays patient’s records are put online by the hospital and doctors can quickly access all test results and patients’ records.

Doctors who spend their time between hospital’s patient’s rooms and the hospital ward can make better use or their working time by carrying with the iPad all the needed information.

According to industry figures 30 percent of doctors in the US are already using a tablet of some kind; manufacturers have even redesigned the hospital white coats to hold the iPad in its pocket.

The tablets are not becoming a substitute for all the paper records that hospitals are still keeping. It turns out that what the iPad is killing are the hospital’s computers, such as wall-minder or the dreaded COW (computer on wheels) which weighs about 60 pounds and the batteries only lasts a couple of hours.

The iPad is light enough to be carried everywhere, even in an operating room because, contrarily to other computers, it can be disinfected.

The big hope though is that the iPad can and will transform the interaction with the patients, letting the doctor and the patients review information and make decisions together by bringing quality information and tool to the patent’s bedside.

Apple probably never realized at what extent their tablet computer would have integrated in people’s life and changed certain aspects forever.