HP ElitePad healthcare tablet steals the show at HIMSS Asia Pacific
In mid-September, I had the good fortune to attend the HIMSS Asia Pacific 2014 conference in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Microsoft was thrilled to support HP’s presence at the event, which was centered on the theme “HP Digital Healthcare Solutions: Harness the power of mobility to deliver improved patient care.”
I think my feet have only now recovered. There was so much traffic at the HP booth that I didn’t sit down at all the first day and rarely throughout the rest of the show.
It was three days filled with incredibly productive conversations with health leaders and partners about how today’s technologies can transform care and support health organizations’ objectives for improving quality, increasing access, and lowering costs.
The technologies that were on display all offer innovative ways to support these initiatives. And hands down, the show stealer was the HP ElitePad Healthcare Tablet—which was shown (to a select few customers) for the first time ever. General availability for the HP ElitePad Healthcare Tablet has just been announced by HP.
Why was it a show stealer? The HP ElitePad Healthcare Tablet with its healthcare jacket addresses the crucial needs health professionals have for mobile device usage in patient care settings. HP spent a lot of time working with real health customers to understand what they actually want in a device – and created a device that is cleanable, droppable, has a really clever handle on the back, along with a barcode scanner that is so critical for use in health today
In addition to all the typical ways health professionals use mobile devices—on rounds, home visits, telecommuting, and more—it was interesting to hear specific use cases customers envision for the HP ElitePad Healthcare Tablet.
For example, one hospital wants to use it to help with post-discharge follow-up, especially for elderly patients. Hospital staff would send the device home with a patient with the patient’s specific medication reminders set up. In addition, the patient and visiting healthcare workers could use it to Skype with clinicians at the hospital during follow-up visits. Another health organization intends to use the HP ElitePad Healthcare Tablet to enable doctors at dispersed clinics and in the field to collaborate in real time with a specialized radiology team.
All in all, we have 50 organizations in the Asia Pacific region that we’re following up with to continue conversations started at the conference about how technology, especially mobile solutions, can help them make a real impact for better health. Thank you to HIMSS Asia Pacific and all the customers and ISVs we had the pleasure of meeting with for a highly productive show!
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