Thursday, April 24, 2008

Need drug info away from a computer?

This announcement was paid for by Epocrates.

Are you a doctor who has been away from your computer and desperately needed free drug reference for iphone? Yeah? Well, I hope your patient was alright. That's not good...but now there is a solution to this problem. It's called Epocrates.

So physicians (otherwise known as doctors) are going mobile. And I'm talkin' iPhone style baby. (The only way to use a phone.) Drug information is always on call with Epocrates. It's fantastic. More than half of the doctors around now use PDAs or smartphones, and they are a big reason why. Their medical reference software is used by over 500,000 healthcare professionals, dog! That's a ton! Wowzers! They have a completely loaded drug guide on their PDA or smartphone. These clinicians are ballin'! They can access all this great information that they need to prescribe the right medicine. And at a moment's notice! They can access information to help you with drug dosing, side effects and health plan coverage. Does anybody else see how ridiculously cool this is???

Want an example though? Well, if a physician named Dr. something is prescribing an antibiotic for a stubborn sinus infection, but the patient is already on Coumadin, then Dr. Something (stop calling me something) would pull out his tricked-out PDA/smartphone and try to find any possible harmful interactions between the two drugs. That way, he will know before he rights the prescription. He doesn't even have to leave the exam room to find a computer, or to ask his nurse. He doesn't have to deal with any of that!

You still want to know more? You want to know exactly what the Epocrates drug reference guide offers? Okay. How about this:

Free medical Pocket PC software
Free medical Palm software
Free medical Windows Mobile software

They also launched a free drug reference for BlackBerry devices if you have one of those and use BB Messenger. And they aren't stopping there. They are working closely with Apple to develop a downloadable drug guide for iPhones too! That will be great when that comes out. But in the meantime, doctors with an iPhone or iPod Touch can access Epocrates content by visiting m.epcorates.com on their Safari web browser.

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