Electronic health records are catching on, as Marty Briggs, creative director of marketing for healthcare technology company HealthFusion, found out on a recent visit to his family doctor. In a guest blog post for Software Advice, he relates the story of how his once-skeptical physician has finally made the leap to EHRs.

Briggs' doctor chose a version of the iPad as his preferred tablet, and he's not alone. But while physicians favor Apple's tablet, Briggs says most EHR software does not.

...according to Software Advice, the majority of the most prominent EMR products can only display their software on the iPad over a network using slow-running, remote access software (think of running your EMR through webinar software like Webex or Go-To-Meeting). The EMR application is not actually running on the iPad or the iPad browser. Instead, the remote access application is allowing you to view the application, as if you were at a desktop or laptop. This approach allows physicians to access their old-fashioned EMR, but the experience is slower and not optimized for iPad use and fingertip touch.