Best option for health care professionals

It is a really hard task for health professionals to remember the benefits and side effects of all the drugs. Up to know most of the doctors depend on certain software’s loaded in their PDA’s. However these PDA based information’s is not sufficient many times. They miss lot of useful information and sometimes the whole drugs say for example Coreg does not exist in it. To overcome this difficulty recently Epocrates, a leading developer of mobile applications and Provider of new online service for healthcare professionals introduced a free web based service. According them now clinicians and support staff can access online free of cost their trusted mobile drug and formulary guide, used by more than 500,000 healthcare professionals. Epocrates provides all kind of information of 3,300 drugs, including dosing, pricing, potential drug interactions. Only healthcare professional requires a computer with internet connection. According to Dr Jacob Wood, MD, assistant professor, UAB Selma Family Residency Program, this excellent program developed to help the healthcare professionals and is more superior to PDA based system. Epocrates products are designed by practicing physicians; therefore they are highly relevant and trusted by all. This product reduced the wastage of time on searching information online, therefore doctors can now concentrate more on patients. Many doctors have rated Epocrates products as primary source of information and they claim that it saves about their 30 minutes per day. Kirk Loevner, Epocrates chairman and chief executive officer said that with this product they want to grow their network beyond the healthcare professionals. This product also includes formulary information for more than 130 health plans and hundreds of Medicare Part D formularies. It is very easy to obtain formulary status, drug coverage and alternative and generic drug options for their patients’ health plans with Epocrates Online with Epocrates product. “I encourage all healthcare professionals to use Epocrates products via the Internet or a PDA, because they provide lot of inside information that you won’t know what you ever did without them ,” said Wood. Clinicians looking for more advanced knowledge should try Epocrates product, it provides additional contents as 400 alternative medicine monographs, patient education handouts, pill pictures, pill identifier and hundreds of medical tables and calculations. CA-based Epocrates has determined to change the ways of medical practice by providing lot of innovative ways. They are determined to cutting-edge technologies. Company has network of nearly 500,000 healthcare professionals, including one in four U.S. physicians and one in two U.S. medical students, with other healthcare stakeholders. Epocrates products are rated high in patient safety, healthcare efficiency and patient satisfaction. Epocrates got ranked 257 in the 24th annual Inc.500 ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. For more information about Epocrates, please visit www.epocrates.com.