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February 8, 2007— Issue No. 68


 

Doctor with Patient

Epocrates Support Alert!

Are you using or upgrading to the new Windows Vista OS?

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Chat With Epocrates Support

There's a new way to contact Epocrates Customer Support that fits your busy schedule!

You can now "chat" online with our representatives Mon-Fri 9-5 PT. Chat is easy, quick, and enables you to multi-task.

To access our Chat service, simply sign in to your Account and click "Chat Now".

Epocrates Expands Its Clinical Board

As part of Epocrates' ongoing commitment to content accuracy and integrity, we are delighted to welcome these prominent healthcare leaders as advisors:

Chairman:

  • John Halamka, MD, MS. CIO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Caregroup Health System, Harvard Clinical Research Institute & Harvard Medical School; Chairman New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network.

Members:

  • David C. Calabrese, MHP, R.Ph. Chief Clinical Officer, Medmetrics Health Partners. Former Director of Pharmacy for Medventive (formerly CareGroup Provider Service Network).
  • John Murphy, PharmD, FCCP, FASHP, FCP. Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Science and Associate Dean, The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy.
  • Daniel Z. Sands, MD, MPH. Director of Internet Solutions Group and Director of Medical Informatics for Cisco Systems. Center for Clinical Computing, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Former CMO and VP of Clinical Strategies for Zix Corporation.
  • Paul Tang, MD, MS. Vice President and CMIO, Palo Alto Medical Foundation; Chairman, American Medical Informatics Association. Chair of the Committee on Data Standards for Patient Safety at the Institute of Medicine.

Listen to the Epocrates Podcast!

Listen to Epocrates' first ever podcast:
Mobile Technology and Patient Safety

Harvard researcher Dr. Rothschild and Epocrates' very own Dr. Fang discuss the results of a breakthrough survey on the perceived use and benefits of mobile clinical references on patient safety.

Don't have an iPod or MP3 player? Listen to the podcast online with iTunes.com (free iTunes software download required).

New Group Discounts: Get 15 Months for the price of 12!

For a limited time, buy Epocrates® Essentials one-year subscriptions for a group of 10 or more and Epocrates will add three months to each subscription at no additional cost!

Contact the Epocrates Group Sales Team or call 650-227-1722 for your quote today.

Offer ends March 15, 2007.


 

Updates at a Glance

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Clinical Updates

In January, our Medical Information editors added 12 new drug monographs and edited 104 existing monographs, including nearly 200 drug interactions.

New monographs include:

•Noxafil (posaconazole)
•Qualaquin (quinine sulfate)
•sulfacetamide topical
(generic)
•Vectibix (panitumumab)
•Zolinza (vorinostat)

See all clinical updates »



MobileCME®

New MobileCME activities include:

•Practical Implications of HPV Vaccination

•Novel Therapeutic Options for Relapsed or Refractory Mantle Cell Lymphoma

•NNRTIs for HIV/AIDS

•Optimal Interferon Treatment for Relapsing-Remitting MS

Don't have MobileCME?

Download it now »



Formulary

New Coventry formularies:
•Coventry Health Care
(National) GHP
•Managed Formulary
(PA)
•HealthAmerica Managed Form.
(PA)
•Carelink Health Plans, Inc
(WA)
•Coventry Health & Life
(OK)
Group Health Plan
(GHP) (IL, MO)
•HealthAmerica Open Formulary
(PA)
•PersonalCare
(IL, WI)
•Southern Health Services, Inc.

(VA)
•WellPath Select

(NC, SC)

New Medicaid formularies:
•Wyoming Medicaid
(WY)
•HP San Joaquin-
MediCal/HF/HK

(CA)

Learn how to add/use formularies »



 

Relax Take A Break!

We want you to get the most out of your mobile device. So the next time you have a work break, check out these non-medical mobile applications recommended by Epocrates members:

  • Yaps (Yet Another Password Safe) Freeware
    Securely store confidential information such as passwords on your Palm® OS device.
    Recommended by Jonathon L. Caine, MD
  • Project Gutenberg Freeware
    Choose from 20,000 free ebooks in 50 languages, from Jane Austen to Xi Zhu!
    (download the free Plucker Viewer first to enable installation of ebooks to your Palm OS PDA or smartphone)
    Recommended by William O'Brien, MD

Do you have a favorite application you would like to recommend? Tell us about it.

(We would especially like suggestions of Windows Mobile® OS software!)

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