Where Doctors Find Drug Info

Epocrates, Inc. of San Mateo, CA provides drug and formulary guide information to over 500,000 professionals in the healthcare field, including one in four U.S. physicians and one in two U.S. medical students by PDA. They will now be offering a no cost Internet-based version as well which will include: dosing, pricing, potential drug interactions, and Medicare Part D formulary coverage.

If your healthcare provider needs instant information on Cipro or any of the other 3,300 drugs in the Epocrates database, that information will now be available anywhere there is an Internet connection.

An optional premium service is also available which provides additional information such as: more than 400 alternative medicine monographs, patient education handouts, pill pictures, pill identifier and hundreds of medical tables and calculations.

Epocrates reports that their products have shown a positive impact on patient safety, healthcare efficiency and patient satisfaction. These factors undoubtedly contributed to their continued growth. In fact, Epocrates ranked 257 in the 24th annual Inc.500 ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the country.