I agree, using an iPad's touchscreen is better for information display & retrieval, than for information recording.
But I'll admit that speech-to-text has good potential for information recording, as long as it is reasonably accurate and provides an easy way to correct errors & omissions.
Before the iPad, the "state of the art" touchscreen was an 11 pound laptop with 2 hours of battery life and a reversible top-cover/"touch" screen that required a stylus to use. The iPad is a REVOLUTION in tablet computing for physicians.
Please tell me that you don't actually believe this and were just speaking for effect, as it isn't even remotely close to the truth.
The iPad was a revolution in exactly the same way the iPod was a revolution. It had a more accessible UI and made trade-offs to be a bit slicker than what was out there, but they were the right trade-offs which were needed to take it to mass appeal. It's a good product, and it will revolutionize tablet use, but not because it's a massive technical improvement.
I don't understand your comment. Hardware isn't the issue. Physicians were early adopters of a variety of devices, starting with PDAs, thence to pads quite a bit more sophisticated than your odd and ancient example, all to try to solve the same problem your platform purports to assist with.
I have before me a ~1 kg laptop with an actual keyboard on which I can type notes almost as fast as I can speak, hold in one hand as I see a patient, with speech recognition already installed, local secure printing, sensitive data that lives in my office and not on your remote server farms, a hard drive that I own, can copy and share as needed, and can keep as secure as I like, and applications which do not require constant secured access to server(s) whose reliability and security I have no control over.
I love the iPad for a bunch of stuff. I own two. I'm an early adopter of all kinds of this type technology. I love toys.
But I'm not getting the "revolution" part of this beyond, forgive me, somewhat breathless and vague marketing hype. Tablets have been around a while and not caught on with physicians for a whole variety of reasons that you folks seem oddly unaware of.
Sincerely good luck with this, but you're not solving any problems for me or any physicians I've talked to about it.
