Toshiba Rx Medical Tablet concept has promise

Cooper envisages medical staff wandering the hospital halls with these tablets, using voice and handwriting recognition – together with on-screen keyboards – to interact with digital patient records.  Rather than have a number of stationary desktop PCs, instead the hospital would have a number of keyboard base-stations which would wirelessly recharge the tablet together with offering a traditional QWERTY ‘board for speedier note entry.

We’re particularly enamoured by the integrated hand-strap on the back of the Rx Medical Tablet, which looks like it would also work as a pretty decent carry handle.  Unfortunately Cooper doesn’t appear to have any official connection to Toshiba, so we’ll have to wait a little longer to see this in production.