Epocrates
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Epocrates, based in San Mateo, CA, develops mobile and Web-based solutions that assist physicians and other healthcare professionals in answering questions during patient consultations. Medical references help prevent drug dosing or drug interaction error, which are among the leading causes of medical errors and adverse drug events according to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report. Clinicians can access clinical information at point-of-care through mobile tools such as personal digital assistants (PDA's) (Palm or Pocket PCs), and smart phones. Epocrates provides reference guides for drug, formulary, disease, codes, and medical terms. The company has approximately 500,000 active clinicians that include doctors (over 200,000), pharmacists, nurses, physician assistants and nurse practitioners. To keep clinicians up-to-date, Epocrates delivers clinical alerts to its users from the FDA, ISMP and CDC. It also updates content weekly and offers mobile C.M.E. ( Continuing Medical Education ) courses. Two Stanford MBA students, Jeffrey Tangney and Richard Fiedotin MD, founded Epocrates in 1998. Kirk Loevner is CEO.
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