Windows Phone Thoughts: Epocrates SxDx Released

"Epocrates Inc., provider of mobile and desktop clinical applications, today announced the launch of the Epocrates SxDx disease diagnosis and treatment reference and symptom assessment tool. This unique application, developed in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital's Laboratory of Computer Science, provides intelligent decision support to clinicians throughout the diagnosis process. Developed for mobile devices, including personal digital assistants, the new product allows healthcare professionals to enter patient symptoms and findings to generate a clinically useful diagnosis index to the Epocrates disease reference. Epocrates' newest product allows clinicians to enter an unlimited number of symptoms, examination findings, such as lab results, and key patient demographics, to generate a list of the plausible diagnoses in the Epocrates disease reference. A key differentiating feature of Epocrates SxDx, is the ability of the application to prompt clinicians to refine their input list based on the prevalence and likelihood of patient symptoms and findings. Potential diagnoses are then seamlessly integrated with more than 1,200 disease topics and 3,300 continually updated drug monographs."

Epocrates has just released SxDx, a combined disease and symptoms assessment tool for medical professionals. It replaces the stand-alone Dx tool in the Essentials suite I reviewed in December 2004. Alone, SxDx is available on a one-year subscription for $69.99 USD or a two-year subscription for $109.99 USD. Alternatively, you can acquire it as part of the Essentials suite on a one-year subscription for $149.99 USD or a two-year subscription for $244.99 USD.