Whether tracking progress on a construction site or seeking new design solutions, Michael Iati goes paperless. On a recent tour of another hospital, “I snapped photos on my iPad, annotated them with an app called Penultimate and emailed them to colleagues as PDFs,” he says.

Tablets are among many digital tools that Johns Hopkins employees wield in pursuit of a paper-free workplace.

Paul Nagy uses iAnnotate PDF to edit manuscripts and provide feedback to colleagues without printing a single page. “The tablet format makes reading articles ideal, and the swipe-based highlighting and editing makes adding remarks a breeze. I can email the annotated PDF directly from the application, and it can be viewed by any PDF reader.”

Documents To Go is another popular app among staff for its ability to work with cloud services such as Dropbox, Google Drive and iCloud. Ted Dawson uses the app to view, edit and create files. “I store all my active files and documents in Documents To Go, so if I have my iPhone or iPad, I have access to them for reading and editing.”