http://www.imedicalapps.com/2012/12/kindle-app-medical-ebooks-avoid-ibooks/


The following article above complains about several downfalls of iBooks in medicine. One of the limitations described in the article is that iBooks are not platform agnostic. I don't believe this is a downfall because iOS devices are beginning to dominate the healthcare field. Medical schools are giving them to medical students upon matriculation and physicians at major academic medical institutions such as Ohio State University are using them for order entry and electronic medical record.

The fact is even though you cannot pull up an iBooks Author file on your computer you can access it on the go without a WiFi connection. Multitouch iBooks on the iPad offer two important features of accessing medical content while you are a medical student or Resident. Most learning occurs on the go and can occur in the bowels of a hospital where internet access can be hard to come by. Therefore, having embedded content on a device you are already carrying with you is a huge plus. The second advantage ...you are always carrying the device because you can. You cannot carry a MacBook of PC into a patient's room or into the operating room. But you can easily tote your iPad into those places.

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