This Month's Features

Thank You!

Epocrates Updates —
New ID Content Available Now

Healthcare Trends —
the Internet

Palm Treo 650™/ Cingular Offer

Medicare Part D — Your Voice

This Month in Medical History

Quick Poll — Did you hear about us from a friend/colleague?

Tip of the Month —
Left-Handed Scrolling

Medicare Part D —
Your Voice

Help your senior patients save money on their prescriptions

All Medicare Part D formularies are now available in Epocrates handheld and online drug references.

What are our customers saying about this service?

"THANK YOU!!! Applying the formularies for Medicare Part D to your free Epocrates content is an answer to a prayer I didn't even know I could ask! This will be one of the most helpful tools in this oh-so-confusing world of Part D we now live in, ESPECIALLY with our dual-eligibles who will never get a formulary for us to browse and help them."
Jonathon Williams, Pharmacist

"Thank you so much for the Medicare Part D formulary feature, which has helped me assist my patients as they navigate this complicated government program. This valuable tool is a welcome addition to all the other great features I use every day."
James Withers, MD

Learn how to access your local Medicare Part D formularies on your PDA or via the web at our
Medicare Part D Resource Center >

This Month in
Medical History

February 12, 1585 — Birth of Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Danish physician and Professor of Medicine at the University of Copenhagen. A major figure in the history of anatomy, he was the first to describe the olfactory nerve. The Bartholin family included many famous physicians — "Bartholin's Gland" was discovered by his grandson, Caspar the Younger.

Quick Poll — Give Us Your Opinion

Did you originally hear about Epocrates from a friend or colleague?

Please note that poll questions can only be answered in the HTML version of our email newsletter.

We will publish the results in the next newsletter.

Last month we asked: Do you expect to see more exercise-related injuries this month, due to people trying to get back into shape after over-indulging during the holidays?
61% said yes. 39% said no.

Thank You!

Thank you for telling your friends and colleagues about our newest products — Epocrates Online FREE web-based drug reference and Epocrates SxDx integrated disease reference and symptom assessment tool. Your continued support enables us to fulfill our mission to improve patient care and safety.

A special thank you also to everyone who took our newsletter survey last month. Over the next few months we'll be making changes to the Epocrates Newsletter based on your feedback. Look out for more of what you want, coming soon!

Epocrates Updates

New Epocrates ID Content Available Now

The Epocrates Infectious Disease team recently updated the "Lung" and "Other" sections of Epocrates ID (available with the Epocrates Rx Pro and Epocrates Essentials references).

• "Lung" section – reviewed and revised entire section and added new recommendations for Ventilator-Acquired Nosocomial Pneumonia
• "Other" section – reviewed and revised Positive PPD, Latent Syphilis, and Biological Weapons (Plague, Tularemia)

Drug Updates

In January, the editors in Medical Information added 11 new drug and 3 new vaccine monographs and made 148 edits to existing monographs.

VIEW DETAILED CLINICAL UPDATES >

New Formularies

We're pleased to announce that the UnitedHealthcare Prescription Drug List is now available nationally.

New MobileCME Activities

Recently added and popular MobileCME activities include:

• Healthy Diet Does Not Improve Breast Cancer Survival
• C. difficile, Y. pseudotuberculosis, Anthrax, Gonorrhea
• Two Ounces of Daily Dark Chocolate Mitigates Smokers' Heart Risks

Healthcare Trends — the Internet

A recent study* reveals that the Internet is now an essential part of medical practice ...

• 99% of U.S. physicians are online; 88% use the Internet daily
• More than half of physicians accessing the Internet in their office have a High-speed Broadband connection
• 74% agree that the Internet helps their practice operate more efficiently
• 63% agree that "the Internet is essential to my practice"

*Manhattan Research

You can now access Epocrates continually updated drug and formulary information via the web for free. Epocrates Online is an authoritative yet easy-to-use resource for healthcare professionals and medical administrators. Learn more >

Palm Treo 650/Cingular Offer

We've partnered with pdamd.com and Cingular to bring you a great deal:

Save up to $275 on a new Palm Treo 650 Smartphone with a Cingular plan and subscription to Epocrates Essentials. As an extra bonus, you will also receive a Palm vehicle power charger for free!

The Treo 650 is a compact mobile phone with PDA functionality, email, messaging, web access, Bluetooth, an MP3 player, and a digital camera that captures video.