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Epocrates app now available for Google's Android
With Epocrates' announcement last week that it launched a Beta version of its software for Google's Android, this means that the company--which supplies information and decision support tools to... Read more...
Physicians split on iPad's impact as healthcare apps debut
The iPad won't be on sale for another month, but the floodgates have already opened for apps to run on the new Apple device, the healthcare field included. We report elsewhere in today's newsletter... Read more...
Epocrates: 20 percent of docs will buy an iPad
Just days after Apple unveiled the iPad mobile computing device, nearly 20 percent of physicians already intend to purchase one within a year and another 38 percent are interested in the iPad but... Read more...
Epocrates tops nursing mag's list of iPhone apps
We love lists here at FierceMobileHealthcare. We are particularly fond of the ones we don't have to compile ourselves, so we're sending kudos to Scrubs magazine ("The nurse's guide to good living")... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Epocrates turns 10
Ah, they grow up so fast, don't they? Epocrates, the mobile drug reference software developer that claims more than 900,000 users, is 10 years old. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company reached this... Read more...
Epocrates: Nurses prefer Palm but physicians love the iPhone
A recently released survey from mobile healthcare software developer Epocrates indicates that nurses still prefer Palm PDAs and smartphones for viewing Epocrates reference tools, though the... Read more...
After Epocrates and the web, smartphone app needs vary greatly
Knowing full well that one person's "must-have" is another person's waste of time, we present a short rundown from the Medical Smartphones blog of "essential" smartphone apps for med students and... Read more...
Med students' use of mobile technology
Take the results with a grain of salt because they're from a vendor survey, but it's still pretty clear that the next generation of doctors has wholeheartedly embraced mobile technology. Almost 90... Read more...
Smartphones catch on with docs of all ages--for now
So, apparently, you can teach old docs new tricks. An Epocrates executive reports that the average age of that company's mobile drug database is 45. "It isn't just the younger clinician anymore who... Read more...
Epocrates: clinical reference more useful than EMRs, eRx for patient safety
Take this bit of news with a grain of salt, but still be comfortable that the salt won't cause a harmful interaction. Epocrates, a familiar name in mobile drug reference software, says... Read more...
