iPad Substitutes as the User Manual for the Hyundai Equus

I picked up, by chance, on a recent reference to the fact that a "free" iPad is delivered with each Hyundai Equus, substituting for the normal hardcopy user manual for the vehicle. Here is an excerpt from the article (see: A Week In The High-Tech Hyundai Equus Super Sedan):

There’s enough technology within the driver’s (and backseat passenger’s) reach to require a few trips to the manual, which just so happens to be an app on the included iPad. Yep, this is the car that comes with an iPad as the user manual. It makes sense, too. Instead of following a series of step-by-step instructions to, say, change the audio settings, you can just refer to the app for a quick demonstration. It’s genius from a user experience and marketing standpoint.

OK, OK! This is a car with a $96,000 price tag. They could also have thrown in a small soiree with Lady Gaga. I think that the take-home lesson from this news is not the value of the iPad as a device for displaying a user manual but rather the fact that user instructions can be developed as iPad apps and then made available for download via the web (see: New Definition for "Apps": The Smartphone Market for Medical Software). Consider, for example, the differences when reading a hardcopy book and an ebook. In the latter case, you can highlight words and automatically look them up in an integrated dictionary or make notes about particular passages. These features could be very useful for a user manual. Similar "user manual apps" could be developed and downloaded for review by patients prior to admission to a hospital showing images of hospital rooms and of the physicians who will be providing care. Patient educational and training videos could also be made available such as post-op, home-based wound care. The opportunities are limitless.

ARUP Labs offer an invaluable physician resource called ARUP Consult. There are three tabs at the top of the app: general disease categories, an alphabetical index, and algorithms for working-up various diseases with lab tests (see: ARUP Offers Lab Algorithms for Disease Diagnosis Support). You can navigate, for example, from Gastrointestinal Dissease > Hepatic Disease > Cirrhosis. Under Cirrhosis are the following subheadings: Background, Diagnosis, Tests, References, Medical Reviewers, and Related Content. There are hot links under References in PubMed to the cited articles. This program is available as an iPhone and iPad app. Dr. Brian Jackson of ARUP Labs remarked to me recently that the number of downloads for iPads now exceeds the number for iPhones. The iPad has become the preferred "professional platform" for physicians.

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It must be the closest rival of Apple's iPad! Far more better if you compare its features.

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