Over the weekend Doximity, the health app developer led by the founders of Epocrates, has teamed up with Stanford University Medical Center Alumni Association (SUMCAA) to create an app that lets graduates and trainees from the school to find each other and connect.
Doximity, which launched toward the end of 2010, describes itself as a medical communications platform that uses social networking...
At the end of September, Epocrates' worldwide user base for its mobile drug reference tools topped 1.4 million healthcare professionals, of which 340,000 are US physicians, according to a recent SEC filing. The company says that figure makes up more than 50 percent of all physicians in the US. For its interactive services business, Epocrates has had the 20 top pharmaceutical companies as clients...
Earlier this year at the HIMSS event, Epocrates announced its plans to offer an affordable, easy to implement electronic health record specifically for the solo practitioner or small physician group. At the time it was a bit of an open secret that Epocrates had acquired some of Caretools' iChart assets since Epocrates named Dr. Tom Giannulli an "essential member of the Epocrates EHR development...
Employers must promote consumer health: The head of PHR platform provider Dossia, Colin Evans, has a worthwhile column on the employers' role in mobile and consumer health: "Informing and empowering employees is central to employers’ broader efforts to more proactively promote health care consumerism, shift toward high value health plans, and intervene directly to eliminate inefficiencies from...
As we have noted with previous "top iPhone medical apps" roundups, the headline of this post is a bit tongue-in-cheek, because this list will change very quickly -- tomorrow a new crop of apps will likely unseat today's most popular offerings. Furthermore, I guarantee you these are not the true top 10 free iPhone Medical Apps. These are just the ones that happen to be getting the most downloads...