Todays health care providers have new tools to help them to stay up to date on the latest journals and news in medicine. For example, if they have a patient taking Avandia, a medication for diabetes they can check any drug interactions, and now be able to quickly give their patients instructions on how and when to take the drug. Through electronic media that can be downloaded to their PDA or accessed directly on the web, HCPs can better communicate with their patients in the limited amount of time they may have.

Epocrates is enhancing its free web-based drug and formulary reference guide with patient education materials and additional clinical tools. Clinicians currently have immediate access to the information needed to make prescribing decisions – such as drug dosing, drug interactions and health plan coverage. Eporcates can be accessed viw the web or downloaded to a Dr.’s PDA. They can access the latest Medicare Part D plans to help their senior citizen population understand which plans are covering which drugs. What used to take some time to investigate is now right at the hand of the Dr.

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