Having started PatientKeeper (<a href="http://www.patientkeeper.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.patientkeeper.com</a>), I feel like I have an informed opinion here.<p>1.  Tablets have been around for a while.  They didn't take off.  I'm not sure why an iTablet would do any better.<p>2.  The integration costs of healthcare are crazy. Tablets won't help.<p>3.  Older physicians have zero interest in using tablets.  The dominate the decision-making and the teaching hospitals.<p>4.  If it doesn't fit in a coat pocket, it is hard to get in front of physicians.<p>5.  Battery life and connectivity are crazy important -- if devices don't last a shift, you're screwed.  If radiology equipment messes up wireless, you're lost.<p>6.  Entrenched workflows, especially those with legalities around paperwork, are very hard to extract.<p>Finally, I have to say that the "wishlist" in this article is laughable.<p>1.  Vital signs can be measured automatically.  It turns out to be a large set of data that a professional needs to interpret to find useful.  Realtime makes a great demo, but no one cares in practice.<p>2.  Shift changes are huge, but tables are a tiny fraction of making them work.  Shifting the responsibility between provider has never been a technology problem -- it's a communication problem.<p>3-5.  Really?  Videos for the patient are a critical element of workflow?<p>How about something real: checklists and best practice management.  That makes a real difference.<p>Perhaps the author ignored it because paper works just fine.