Real Review: Epocrates
RizP who previously reviewed Lexi-Comp, has come out with an excellent Review of Epocrates for WebOS. He’s spot on with his comments except the bit about Epocrates taking 15 seconds to launch. With WebOS 1.4, Epocrates launches quite briskly, under 5 seconds now. The app is now missing OTAs or Over The Air updates but I expect this will be implemented in future versions. The conspicuous thing missing from the PalmOS version is Epocrates Mobile CME, something which is useful for the physician on the go.
Overall however, Epocrates WebOS is indeed an excellent and indispensable medical resource. If you own a WebOS device you MUST get it.
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About the author, Alan: Alan Teh is a Malaysian Physician who specialises in Hematology-Oncology & Stem cell Transplantation. He has been using Palm PDAs since 1997 and is absolutely reliant on them. His current PDA is a Palm Pre and is a strong advocate of the webOS platform, Palm's latest operating system. Caught the blogging bug in 2004 and has been addicted ever since… |
Epocrates is the critical app for a physician using webos. Epocrates’ webos version is superior to palm os (treo, etc) with pill id. It’s fast too. With the latest webos 1.4 upgrade (with enhanced response time), the webos is turning out to be an excellent medical provider’s smartphone.
I agree. The game changer happened when Epocrates stepped on the plate.