Doctors use iPads to educate, care for patients

By Doug Boyd

(July 21, 2011)   —   Dr. Evelio Rodriguez has a new way to illustrate for his patients the heart procedures they will be going through.

He takes out an iPad, touches the screen, and a 3D image of a beating heart appears. Rodriguez drags his finger across the screen to rotate the heart. Animated instruments appear, treat areas of the heart, then disappear. Read more...