Statistics
Mobile devices in healthcare are ubiquitous
- 81 percent of U.S. physicians own a mobile device; 75 percent of U.S. physicians use an Apple device
- Majority of physicians agree mobile devices are Essential to their practice
- Majority of physicians using drug reference database apps on mobile say they are highly influential on clinical decisions
- Epocrates is the #1 most used drug reference among U.S. physicians and use it an average of 12 times per week
- 64% of physicians view portal sites for HCPs as very influential in making clinical decisions, higher than government and pharmaceutical sites
Resource: Manhattan Research 2011, Taking the Pulse® U.S. v11.0
5th Annual Future Physicians of America Survey
More than 700 medical students share opinions on mobile preferences, training and EHR adoption.
Apple iPhone Becomes a Patient Safety Device with Epocrates
Physicians and consumers were surveyed to see how the iPhone is being used to support clinical decisions and ensure medication safety
- Nearly 80% of physicians report using Epocrates during patient visits
Thousands of consumers have downloaded Epocrates to their iPhone to monitor their personal health care (67%) or manage family care (23%)
Prevalence of Medical Errors
- The number of serious adverse drug events reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has more than doubled between 1998 and 2005. (Archives of Internal Medicine, 2007)
- The number of fatal drug events between 1998 and 2005 went up from 5,519 to 15,107, a 270 percent increase. (Archives of Internal Medicine, 2007)
- Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 million people every year (Institute of Medicine, 2006)
- 400,000 preventable drug-related injuries occur each year in hospitals. Another 900,000 occur in long-term care settings and roughly 530,000 occur among Medicare recipients in outpatient clinics (Institute of Medicine, 2006).
- More than 60% of physicians believed that using the Epocrates Rx drug reference reduced the likelihood of an adverse drug event or medication error three or more times in the prior month (Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2005).
- Over half of physicians report avoiding at least 1 medical error a week (Epocrates, 2007)
How many medical errors or adverse drug events (ADEs) does Epocrates help you avoid each week? (n=3,828 physicians)
