14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that even Apple's relentless lawsuit spree isn't enough to stop the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 from becoming an intrinsic part of the healthcare field, even if it is just one hospital at a time.
This report says that the 10.1-inch Samsung tablet known as Galaxy Tab 10.1 has been added to the inner workings of the Kangbuk Samsung Hospital.
Armed with the Dr. Smart Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software, it will make sure that all the patient data doctors could ever need is at their fingertips.
Basically, doctors will get to access patient prescriptions, medical history and any other data they may need from wherever they are in the hospital.
This should help improve emergency response times, as doctors will be able to keep track of things even on the move.
The fact that patients themselves will get to use the tablets to look up illness explanations and detailed images is another boon that the Kangbuk Samsung Hospital will henceforth enjoy.
All in all, the role that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 plays here is similar to the one for which the Dashboard from HP and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital was made.
Granted, said Dashboard is a bit more specialized, but not overmuch, since it will do more than just replace the handwritten patient dashboards that all hospitals use nowadays.
Samsung recently got a sort of respite in the whole patent battle that got the Galaxy tab 10.1 banned in Australia and Germany.
This, at least, grants some sort of ease of mind, since it means that there isn't too much danger of the item being banned in Korea (Kangbuk hospital is based in Seoul).
The report didn't say if Samsung was trying to get other hospitals to use the Galaxy Tab 10.1, but it wouldn't be strange if it did.