Epocrates

Epocrates, Inc. provides subscriptions for mobile drug reference tools and electronic health records to healthcare professionals, and interactive services to the healthcare industry. The company offers Epocrates mobile physician platform, which provides access to information that healthcare professionals need at the point of care, such as dosing, drug interactions, pricing, and insurance coverage for various brands, and generic and over-the-counter drugs; and Epocrates online drug and clinical reference products, which comprise drug and formulary information, access to disease content, and patient education handouts, as well as alternative medicine database, various medical equations, clinical criteria, and unit/dose converters. It also provides interactive services, such as DocAlert clinical messaging to deliver news and alerts, including product approvals, clinical study results, practice management information, industry guidelines, and formulary status changes to the users; market research programs to survey healthcare professionals; formulary hosting services; and mobile resource center, an educational service that provides information on clinical developments for various diseases, conditions, and topics. In addition, the company offers virtual representative services, including drug detailing, drug sampling, patient literature delivery, and the ability to contact drug manufacturers at the point of care; Epocrates’ Essential Points, which enable pharmaceutical clients to sponsor activities on relevant topics and communicates through overviews on physicians’ mobile devices; and Epocrates’ App Network, a service that enables development, distribution, or sponsorship of apps, which are offered to targeted groups of physicians in the network. Epocrates, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is based in San Mateo, California. Epocartes Inc. has been acquired.