Tuesday, February 11, 2003
ePocrates for Pocket PC
Posted by marlof in "NEWS" @ 03:05 PM
http://www.epocrates.com/products/
One of the biggest medical handheld applications, perhaps even a killer application, is ePocrates. Many of my medical friends have asked again and again if ePocrates was available for the Pocket PC. However as the big yellow sign on the product page shows, it's a product for Palm OS handhelds only. As I understand there are alternatives for ePocrates in the Pocket PC world, but still people kept asking me about about ePocrates. And so far, ePocrates never saw enough reason to port their excellent product to the Pocket PC.
But it seems they changed their mind as Gary Glick received a message by ePocrates stating that a Pocket PC version is under development: "We are pleased to announce that in response to thousands of requests, we are currently developing ePocrates Rx Pro, our premium drug reference software, for the Pocket PC platform. We plan on releasing ePocrates Rx Pro for the Pocket PC THIS SPRING. Please stay tuned to future ePocrates communications so we can keep you updated on the final release date and other details about the new software. (We would appreciate it if you could refrain from contacting our customer support team over the next few months to ask when the software will be released.)"
So far only the premium Pro version is announced (which costs $49 per year on the Palm platform), and I don't know if the basic free version will follow. Still I think this is very, very cool. To me the fact that die hard Palm software like ePocrates is being ported to the Pocket PC means that the Pocket PC is still gaining momentum.
One of the biggest medical handheld applications, perhaps even a killer application, is ePocrates. Many of my medical friends have asked again and again if ePocrates was available for the Pocket PC. However as the big yellow sign on the product page shows, it's a product for Palm OS handhelds only. As I understand there are alternatives for ePocrates in the Pocket PC world, but still people kept asking me about about ePocrates. And so far, ePocrates never saw enough reason to port their excellent product to the Pocket PC.
But it seems they changed their mind as Gary Glick received a message by ePocrates stating that a Pocket PC version is under development: "We are pleased to announce that in response to thousands of requests, we are currently developing ePocrates Rx Pro, our premium drug reference software, for the Pocket PC platform. We plan on releasing ePocrates Rx Pro for the Pocket PC THIS SPRING. Please stay tuned to future ePocrates communications so we can keep you updated on the final release date and other details about the new software. (We would appreciate it if you could refrain from contacting our customer support team over the next few months to ask when the software will be released.)"
So far only the premium Pro version is announced (which costs $49 per year on the Palm platform), and I don't know if the basic free version will follow. Still I think this is very, very cool. To me the fact that die hard Palm software like ePocrates is being ported to the Pocket PC means that the Pocket PC is still gaining momentum.
