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Oh sure, a MedPad is almost certain. But it'd be a rather different device to the iPad - locked down in what you can load on it, with encryption for patient data and so on. If there was a camera with a bar code scanner, you could swipe it across a code on each bed/trolley, and if you're authorised it brings up the patient case history, for example.
And you can't put any apps in the store which would potentially create medical liability for Apple (or for medical use the GPS at all, actually - that's explicitly banned). As Harmon says they're likely using enterprise-level development if they're systematically deploying iPhones.
(Also, as I understand it most of what my GP does with his smartphone is web-based, since the local health service doesn't assume its doctors have iPhones and they can ensure the data is saved centrally and the connection is encrypted!)
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