This Month's Features

Tell Us What You Think ...

New Products for the New Year— Epocrates Online and Epocrates SxDx

Epocrates Content Updates — MEDICARE PART D Formularies

Quick Poll — Do you expect to see more exercise-related injuries this month?

Advocate of the Month —
Jean Anaya, PA-C (CPT)

This Month in Medical History

Question of the Month — Does Epocrates share customer information?

Advocate of the Month

Jean Anaya PA-C (CPT) —
Our MobileCME Photo Contest Grand Prize Winner!

Jean with an Afghan child

Congratulations to Jean, whose photo from Afghanistan (above) won her the Grand Prize in our Where Do You CME? Photo Contest.

Jean is serving one year in Afghanistan with the Army National Guard. Of winning the $3,000 grand prize she says:
"It will be a great way to return to the States ... I'm thinking Hawaii!"

We asked Jean to tell us more about her experiences in Afghanistan ...

"I have already spent seven months in the Ghazni Province in Central Afghanistan and I cannot tell you how valuable Epocrates Essentials is to me here. I don't have to struggle with toting books around in a duffle bag, and most importantly it can go where I go. I have used Epocrates Essentials numerous times while out in the middle of nowhere!

I have been to some very remote parts of Afghanistan as part of a PRT (provincial reconstruction team). The PRT is made up of different elements, including our Civil Affairs group, which does the contracting for building bridges, schools, wells, and roads, and my team, which runs a clinic for the Ghazni residents and also goes into remote villages to provide healthcare for the local people there.

When I am not in the field I also do sick call for the soldiers and work on CLS (combat Life Savers) classes for the ANA (Afghan National Army) soldiers.  

It has been an interesting tour for me as a PA-C and one that I will never forget. I certainly couldn't have done it without Epocrates Essentials. Oh, and my interpreter, who is an Afghan doctor, loves the program as well!"

View Jean's pictures from an Afghan Orphanage >

This Month in
Medical History

January 14, 1794 — Elizabeth Hog Bennett was the first woman in the United States to successfully give birth by cesarean section. Her husband, Dr. Jessee Bennett, performed the surgery on a wooden table without anesthetic. Elsewhere in the world, C-sections are known to have been performed for thousands of years.

Learn more about the history of cesareans >

Medicare Part D Formularies Available Now!

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New Products for the New Year

We're excited to announce the availability of two new clinical products:

• Epocrates Online FREE web-based drug and formulary reference

Do you ever wish you could look up our free continually updated drug and formulary information via the web? Now you can!

Epocrates Online gives you no-fee access to more than 3,300 drug monographs and hundreds of formularies (including all Medicare Part D formularies) from any Internet-connected desktop/laptop computer.

Learn more about Epocrates Online >

Access Epocrates Online now >
(sign-in and one-time license agreement required)

• Epocrates SxDx mobile disease diagnosis/treatment reference and symptom assessment tool (replaces the Epocrates Dx disease reference)

Epocrates SxDx (available on its own or as part of Epocrates Essentials) includes the NEW Epocrates Sx symptom assessment tool, which enables you to enter symptoms and findings to search for the most likely diagnoses.

Learn more about Epocrates SxDx >

Current Epocrates Dx/Epocrates Essentials subscribers: Upgrade for free!

Epocrates Content Updates

MEDICARE PART D FORMULARIES

Epocrates is pleased to inform you that all 330 Medicare Part D formularies are now available for FREE via Epocrates mobile and online drug references.

We know that Medicare Part D may cause some confusion; we hope that instant access to our online Resource Center and formularies will simplify your life and help you provide the best possible care to your senior patients.

Learn More >

The following health plan insurance formulary is also now available:
Molina Healthcare of Ohio PDL (OH)

ADD FORMULARIES NOW (sign in required) >

Drug & Clinical Updates

• All Epocrates drug references
  — 8 new drug monographs, 111 edits to existing drug monographs
• Epocrates Rx Pro/ Epocrates Essentials/
  Epocrates Online premium version
  — 3 new HIV tables
• Epocrates Lab/ Epocrates Essentials
  — 18 new lab monographs, 85 monographs updated to include an appropriate pediatric component

VIEW DETAILED UPDATES >

New MobileCME Activities

We continually add primary care and specialty CME activities to the free MobileCME learning center. Recently added and popular activities include:

• Diagnosing HBV
• Full-Body Scans Raise Cancer Risk
• Uterine Bleeding in Pre-Teen Case

Quick Poll — Give Us Your Opinion

Do you expect to see more exercise-related injuries this month, due to people trying to get back into shape after over-indulging during the holidays?

Please note that poll questions can only be answered in the HTML version of our email newsletter.

We will publish the results in the next newsletter.

Last month we asked: Have recent news reports increased patient interest and involvement in the potential side-effects of their prescription medications?
63% said yes. 37% said no.