Hospitals are deploying the iPad in the fight against the coronavirusThe iPad is starting to play major new roles in patient care.
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Hospitals are using iPads to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Mass General has seen a huge drop in the need for PPE since implementing the device.
Other hospitals are enabling more meaningful experiences for families.
As the medical community continues to fight the coronavirus pandemic, some hospitals are beginning to adopt technological solutions in ways that they had not considered before in order to protect their staff and provide better care for their patients.
A new report from Wired says that many hospitals are using the iPad and iPhone to transform their internal practices. Massachusetts General Hospital, for instance, is seeing a huge decline in the amount of personal protective equipment needed by using iPads to communicate with COVID-19 patients.
"In the three weeks since the system was deployed, Mass General says its use of personal protective equipment, or PPE, has fallen by half,...
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Hospitals are deploying the iPad in the fight against the coronavirus
