Thursday, April 24, 2008

The digital age of prescribing

With inventions of gadgets and equipment to aid medical practitioners, medicine can no longer be tagged as a hit-or-miss science.

In prescribing medications specifically, more and more doctors are now making their PDAs as bible in giving out safe and effective medicines. No bulky drug handbook that gets outdated in a short span of time. Thanks to Epocrates drug reference guide that gives free medical palm software that works with PDAs and BlackBerry. And soon it will also work well with iPhone or iPod Touch a they collaborate with Apple.

With this, clinicians have easy access to information concerning drug safe and effective drug combinations. No need to rummage in pile of books or search through a thousand of references online since they are already compiled in software.

This announcement was paid for by Epocrates

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