Epocrates for webOS Imminent. Update: It's Here! 52
We've heard through the grapevine that Epocrates is coming to webOS and apparently it won't be too long until it lands. The company has a sign-up form where you can get notified when it's available - "early 2010" they say.
The app is actually out in a beta to a small group of testers. Some have publicly commented in our forums that the app is "FAST," while anonymously we hear that the app will include the standard Epocrates features plus Med Math, Interactions, their pill finder, and plenty of tables. The app, as you can see at right, also follows the webOS ethic of "just start typing" to search everything.
Since webOS can, you know, fully multitask, medical professionals will be able to leave the app open in the background (where we're told it doesn't appear to consume much in the way of resources) to give it faster access than what is available on the iPhone platform.
Mullrat in our forums says that an Epocrates rep said the app was submitted to Palm for approval - so all we need do now is wait. Luckily webOS users have plenty of practice in that regard.
Thanks anonymous!
Update: Wahey! It's in the App Catalog, listed for free, and it's nearly 33 megs of medical goodness. Get downloading! Thanks @elbaso!
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So so glad its coming, looking foward to it. Now only if google maps with turn by turn directions could come along with DOC2G, FAST {;-)} flash, visual voicemail, and VOIP could come also.
waiting for this!
Hey there Palm, Epocrates here. Remember us? We were one of your launch partners back in CES 2009. Well, we got our WebOS app done. Sorry, it took a little longer than three days.
lmao
Thank goodness. I've been waiting for this. Drugview stinks, and Lexicomp is cumbersome, have to flick/scroll 14 times just to find dosing. Thank you ePocrates and Thank you Palm!
I feel ya. God forbid you're having to search for drug formulations on Drugview. I was searching for Omeprazole suspension last night. It exists, but in powder packets.....but Drugview couldn't tell me that.
Too little too late for my money. I moved on to PEPID 3 weeks ago and am loving it.
this will be available for europe? (for european doctors) :P
Now all I need to do is go become a doctor.
HAHA...just walk around the hospital with Epocrates open, same feeling :D
HAH... I'm gonna have to try this.
Looking forward to this. Maybe this will arrive once webos 1.4 drops.
About time! I (honestly) forgot epoc was coming to Pre since it's been so long. Today I thought I would eventually have to get the lame phone for medical apps.... 8[
can't wait. Oh wait, I have been waiting...like everyone else...since June. I'm almost done with residency and they still not ready. Still, can't wait :)
can't wait. Oh wait, I have been waiting...like everyone else...since June. I'm almost done with residency and they still not ready. Still, can't wait :)
Anyone have any opinions as to epocrates vs Lexicomp?
I used epocrates extensively over 10 years on palm os as well as blackberry. I use lexicomp on my hospital dashboard (less experience on mobile versions). My feeling is lexicomp is better for pharmacists since it has more exhaustive info but epocrates is optimized for clinicians who need fast but accurate info on dosage, interactions, side-effects. Lexicomp at least on dashboard takes too long for busy clinician to find info.
It is in the app catalog now!!
its here
It's about time. My wife won't upgrade her Centro to a Pixi until Epocrates has a native WebOS application and you can record video on the phone. I'll test it out on my Pre Plus and if good then we may go to the Verizon store after the 1.4 upgrade.
woot! downloading now
FREE!!!
awesome been waiting for this.
It's here. Just downloaded and installed. It IS awesome.
Cursory look- (
Love it. I can look up 3 meds before Lexi-Comp is even done loading. And the page scroll is kind of funky with Lexi-Comp. It was a worthy understudy but the main attraction is here now.
plus lexicomp takes forever to scroll to find dosing. This new epocrates is awesome!
Med math, tons of table (ie acls protocols). This is great. Medical professionals were early adopters of PDAs because of programs like epocrates. Its about time we got it on WebOS
Downloading now. . .update you all soon.
This is from Epocrates email I just got:
""Additional references and tools to help you every day. MedMath has dozens of useful medical calculators, including BMI, pregnancy wheel and unit conversion.
We'll be continuing to add features and functionality, including clinical updates and formularies, over the next couple of months.""
So maybe the clinical update component is not up yet. That's ok. At least for now. Android version just got released also! Huh. I thought android version was behind webos.
Took about 20 minutes to load, but MAN is it slick! Well worth the wait. Putting away the Palm TX as we speak. Now all I really need is DTG and the PDA is gone forever.
Thanks, ePocrates! Are you sending out the word? My message from you was re: Android. Come on, send out the word for WebOS, already!
FINALLY!!! It's absolutely amazing. It's blazing fast! Very responsive, great layout. Feels like redemption for some reason.
You tube overview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UWMoUM_sSk&CID=TEMPOSTDLPRERX&et_cid=137...
Non-clinical Beta Version for FREE? Thats a sure fire way for at least $10k. Right?
basic epocrates has always been free. They bank on you upgrading to pro or essential package, which many do (though having the free is still fun to play around with if you are a non-professional). The pro adds useful features like herbal medicines (plenty of people take them and they can have drug interactions) and the essentials package has everything the pro does plus some other features (the most useful being images and descriptions of various diagnostic tests one can order).
Great! I've been waiting for this 8 long months. That's the one reason why I missed my Treo...Now I don't miss it anymore. Thanks Epocrates!
Now, can I get my money back for Classic? Thanks ePocrates.
Anyone else having issues installing this? I've left it on "installing..." for about an hour now.
Installed easily the first time.
After 10 to 15 minutes, seemed to stop downloading after first attempt. So I hit restart on my Pre Plus, then second download went smoothly. Took about five minutes. What a fantastic app!
This refuses to install on my Pre Plus. Tried it several times. I've left it for ten minutes, and I've left it for an hour (twice). Fully shut down and restarted my phone, twice. No patches installed whatsoever. A popup says Epocrates is installed, but at the same time the "Installing" banner is up ... and stays up forever and ever and ever. The Epocrates icon that appears in the Launcher has a blue circle in it, and if you click it it takes you back to the App Catalog. But you can't delete and start over, because the Epocrates is not listed in installed apps, either from the Launcher or from the Preware app. Only way to get rid of it is to go back into the App Caalog and start downloading Epocrates again, then abort the download. I'm sure this is groovy, but jeez! I give up.
Got it! Very cool, smooth, and fast! Agree...can I dump classics now?
Super Big Hoooooooorrraaaaay!
Installed flawlessly (using WiFi connection) and works great!
The Palm Pre now graduates from 'pretty good' to REAL TOOL.
I've been using Epocrates since I was a Family Med resident and it has been a major pain using the Classic version, as my big fingers don't hit little rows in Classic too well. This will seriously help in clinic and hospital.
Now if we just had something that would read my hundreds of old Wordsmith files that all my clinical pearls are in...
David Jarvis, MD
I used wordsmith a long while ago. Can you export to ascii on your pc/mac and then add to Evernote PC app then sync with evernote webos version. Evernote is acceptable though a bit slow but I'm ok until better memo solution comes along.
My memos were converted from palm to Outlook exchange a while ago. Unfortunately outlook memos aren't supported by webos. (Blackberry did support with BB enterprise server) So did the above to get my pearls into the Pre!
Best call present ever. It'd been so long since I'd used it, I didn't realize how much I missed it.
Just deleted Lexicomp and Classic.
But I, too, would like to get my money back from the folks at Classic. What a hunk of turd that was.
I still use Classic for Documents To Go and for MobileDB, hopefully not for long.
i got this app its nice
Not a medical professional myself but downloaded for my wife who is a dental hygienist. She occasionally needs to look up meds for patients & she thinks this is awesome. I was impressed with the speed that the data is accessed & displayed. VERY NICE.
I'm a Certified Pharmacy Technician and I've been really, really frustrated with the limited info on Drugview. I just downloading Epocrates and I'm already impressed. Info I was searching for last night for 15 minutes I found in under 1 minute on Epocrates.
THANK YOU!!!
Yeah PEPID has a deal of 3 months free for their PalmPre Medical Apps when you purchase before the end of February. Even after that you can get a free 2 week trial with no limitations. It is much better: http://www.pepid.com
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Thank goodness. I've been waiting for this. Drugview stinks, and Lexicomp is cumbersome, have to Hairstyles for Women flick/scroll 14 times just to find dosing. Thank you ePocrates and Thank you Palm as well.
The positive comments and do well wishes are very motivational and greatly appreciated.
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