A．Is it possible that among all the advertisements about Apple’s iPad, one potential use has been overlooked Larry Nathanson, head of emergency-medicine "informatics" at one of Harvard Medical School’s hospitals, has experimented with using the device in the patients’ rooms. He writes that "initial tests with our clinical applications went amazingly well... the EKGs (心电图) look better on screen than on paper. It was great having all of the clinical information right at the bedside to discuss with the patient." B．Dr. Nathanson’s enthusiasm hints at the potential of wireless instruments to improve health care, and to ensure more personalized treatment in particular. Experts have long predicted that advances in genetics will bring in a golden age of individually tailored therapies. But in fact it is much lower-tech wireless devices and Internet-based health software that are speeding up the mass personalization
