Apple Computers has made a big success with their iPhone over the past few years and now, to build on that success, they are introducing it’s bigger cousin the iPad. These advanced, ultra-easy-to-use mobile devices are going to have a significant impact on the daily operations of large organizations, especially in the area of labor management. Their “location specific” features and extraordinary user interface (every function effortless to perform) breaks through many of the obstacles that have blocked the full adoption of computers in many large enterprises, and this translates into less paper and lower costs.
For example, let’s look at hospitals. Physicians and nurses have been adopting the iPhone at a rapid pace, and integrating it into their daily professional work. There is every reason to assume that the iPad will be even more popular because of its larger size.
Why is this important for labor management, timekeeping, scheduling, and even more important, for the reduction of paper in general? Well, consider the clipboard.
When you think of a doctor in a hospital, what do you picture that doctor carrying? A clipboard of course. It has been the indispensable tool of medical personnel for decades. Hospital operations require an extraordinary amount of paperwork, forms, charts, guide-books, reference manuals, charge sheets, and a thousand other documents. The functioning of the human body, and the vast array of diseases and treatments, form a complex and ever-changing mass of information which a typical hospital must manage
