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Apple Inc. is making it hard for the Mayo Clinic and hospitals around the country to keep up.

The Rochester, Minn.-based nonprofit hospital and research group had just launched its first apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch earlier this year. But before you can say “Jobs,” Apple is now selling the iPad, its much anticipated multi-touch tablet computer.

Mayo spokeswoman Ginger Plumbo says the organization is not currently developing any iPad apps. But, “it’s certainly something that we would consider for the right audience and the right application in the future,” she said.

No doubt when that happens, Apple would have launched another device that you can control with your brain.

Other hospitals aren’t willing to wait that long. Unity Medical Inc. recently announced that Florida Hospital for Children at Walt Disney Pavilion in Orlando and St. Luke’s Health System in Boise, Idaho, will test its new Medical Video jLog iPad app that uses short form interactive video to explain common medical procedures such as CT scans, cardiac stent placements and physical rehabilitation treatment.