Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Epocrates will help you get drug info

This announcement was paid for by Epocrates. You ever needed a free drug reference for iphone? Sure, we all have. Well...what if I told you that you could have one? Don't believe me? You will... So physicians (otherwise known as doctors) are going mobile. That's right. I'm not talking about the old school pagers they used to carry. I'm talkin' iPhones baby. Drug information is now always on call with Epocrates. More than 50% of doctors now use PDAs or smartphones. Epocrates is a big part of this. They are pretty much credited with the whole thing! Their medical reference software is seriously used by over 500,000 healthcare professionals, man! That's a lot! Unbelievable! They have a completely loaded drug guide on their PDA or smartphone. These clinicians are ballin'! They can access all this crazy information that they need to prescribe the right medicine. And they can get it RIGHT NOW! They can access information to help you with drug dosing, side effects and health plan coverage. (Does somebody smell awesome? I think I smell awesome.) Want an example though? You don't trust me? Okay, fine. Well, if a physician (let's call him Dr. Dreigh) is prescribing an antibiotic for a stubborn sinus infection, but the patient is already on Coumadin, then Dr. Dreigh would pull out his trusty PDA/smartphone and try to find any possible harmful interactions between the two drugs. That way, he will know before he rights the prescription. And he doesn't even have to leave the exam room to go logon to an old school Apple computer, or to ask his nurse, or one of the drug dealers in the waiting room who is waiting to have his gunshot wounds treated after a deal went bad. 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. That's what I'm talking about Epocrates! And they aren't stopping there. They are working closely with Apple to develope 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. Epocrates: Not Socrates, but making all the doctors say please, we need more!

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