Digital innovations and technological strides have taken a concrete place in the healthcare landscape. The post-pandemic scenario led to a greater shift towards using software solutions and mobile applications. Physicians almost 85% leveraged telemedicine EMR Software solutions for effective remote care. Similarly, doctors are making use of medical apps to support their decision-making process and hence improve the quality of patient care and their understanding.
About epocrates Mobile app
EMR Software vendor, athenahealth has always believed in offering innovative solutions to its users to create opportunities for healthcare providers to offer exceptional care by empowering them with robust tools.
Epocrates is the top US medical app that provides clinical knowledge and resources to clinicians at the point of care. This includes drug data, diagnosis, and potential treatment guidance. The mobile app, epocrates is intended to help medical professionals—physicians, nurses, and pharmacists, among others—make well-informed decisions regarding patient care. The app provides a wealth of features and data to aid medical practitioners in their day-to-day work.
Features Offered by Epocrates Mobile App
Here are some of epocrates’ significant functionalities and aspects:
Drug Information
The epocrates app from athenahealth EMR Software has a comprehensive database of pharmacological information, including dose, administration, adverse effects, interactions, and more. This feature allows healthcare providers to look up information regarding specific medications, allowing them to make more educated decisions about prescribing and delivering medications.
Interaction Checking
Physicians can use the epocrates app to find harmful interactions between over-the-counter drugs and prescriptions. This can help improve patient safety as safe medications are prescribed to the patient eliminating the chances of adverse reactions particularly when patients are taking multiple medications.
Medical Calculators
A range of medical calculators are available in epocrates to help medical practitioners make clinical judgments. These calculators are useful for many medical equations, risk assessment, and dosage calculations.
Medical News and Updates
The epocrates app by athenahealth EHR Software provides a library of recent medical news and any updates in the field. The world of healthcare is changing rapidly and staying abreast of new healthcare technology breakthroughs, treatments, and diagnosis is necessary to offer exceptional care.
Expertise in the EMR Software
Healthcare providers can view some of epocrates content and data in athenahealth’s Electronic Health Records (EHR) Software system. The cloud technology enables clinicians to view the content from anywhere.
epocrates VS epocrates+ by athenahealth EHR Software
There are two versions of the mobile app available for users to download on iPhone and Android. Let’s look at what’s offered in both apps to help with medical decision support at the point of care.
Epocrates
- Drug Information
- Epocrates CME
- Drug Interaction Checker
- Pill ID
- Clinical Guidelines
Epocrates+
Includes the above tools and the following
- Disease Information
- Infectious Disease Treatment
- Labs
- ICD-10 Codes
- Alternative Medicines
Healthcare providers can decide which mobile app to utilize according to their requirements. Currently, epocrates is being used by more than 1 million providers to promptly access information that can support clinical decision-making and impact the patient treatment process.
