According to the latest report from TUAW, the management of Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre located in Los Angeles, the hospital has installed numerous Apple’s iPads in their neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), so they could bridge the communication gap between the medical team of the newborns and their families. With the introduction of iPads, now mothers of the newborns can see their babies and also get in touch with the hospital staff, in case they are not able to do so personally. This new initiative from Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre is actually a part of a program known as BabyTime that is intended to eliminate communications gap.
When the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the medical centre admits a newborn, a iPad is placed close to the incubator of the baby and another slate is provided to the mother of the child through which she can keep a track of the baby twice a day by logging into BabyTime. In addition to this, mothers of newborn babies can also ask questions from the nurses and doctors apart from getting updates regarding their little ones when they are giving treatment to the infant in the NICU, even though they are on another floor.
“Cedars-Sinai notes that approximately 20 to 30 percent of new mothers who undergo C-sections “do not feel well enough to travel from their bed in the Labor and Delivery unit to the NICU for the first 24 to 48 hours.”
With the iPad, however, these mothers can now see their newborn and, just as importantly, interact with the nurses and doctors keeping an eye on their baby.
All in all, it’s a great way to keep patients more involved and informed while also adding an overall sense of comfort to what can otherwise be a stressful and worrisome situation.”
iPad was not the only device that Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre has used to bridge the communication gap, as the hospital has recently provided iPhones to its staff members as well, so its doctors and nurses could easily correspond with each other about any medical emergency.
With the passage of time demand for compact slate of Apple is increasing because different organizations are adapting the devices quite swiftly. This list includes air lines who have provided iPads to their pilots and some other crew members like air hostesses, so they could perform their duties more effectively.
Source: iPhoneinCanada
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