Thank you for your insight. It's nice to have some real life confirmations of what Bert and I have been trying to tell people for years.
That's why I've been trying to tell people that higher productivity comes from better workstations. I know the whole tablet/iPad/chromebook craze has people wanting to convert, but it just doesn't make business sense. High productivity comes from multi-monitor setups. It just makes logical sense to use them with applications such as Amazing Charts. Most likely, you will also need to access hospital portals, various websites, shared folders, faxes, etc. If you want some empirical data, see below.
Studies conducted by Dell, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Utah all basically showed the same thing. Dual monitors can boost productivity tremendously. The Utah study showed you can get an extra 56 days of productivity from each employee every year. Employees with 17-inch laptops (which are pretty big by laptop standards) were the least productive and the least pleasant to use. Imagine what they would say if you gave them an 11 inch chromebook. When people buy extremely small tablets/laptops for their employees to work on, their employees probably don't like it and it slows them down.
All of my employees have at least dual monitors. This is why many business people disliked/don't see the point of the Metro Interface of Windows 8. A start screen designed to run one app at a time really just defeats the point of a workstation. My personal sweet spot is 3 monitors. I have a 4th but it's just running surveillance/other static items.
I can also post some useful apps to use in a multimonitor setting in my blog. Stay tuned.
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