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Would Epocrates do better with management separate from athenahealth?

Consider it more wondering aloud than anything close to an official announcement, but athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush publicly mused Wednesday whether Epocrates might be more successful "outside of my management sphere."

By Neil Versel

The Power of One: Redefining Healthcare with an AI-Driven Unified Platform

In a landscape where complexity has long been the norm, the power of one lies not just in unification, but in intelligence and automation.

By David Cohen, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Greenway Health

Health IT

Pharmacist finds ‘significant errors’ in popular Bugs + Drug app

Physicians might be using more mobile healthcare apps, but the question of trust is one that still looms. An example of that comes this week in the form of a pharmacist’s biting review of an app from the powerhouse team of Epocrates and Athenahealth. The app in question, Bugs + Drugs, pairs Epocrates’ clinical content […]

By Deanna Pogorelc

Health IT

athenahealth + Epocrates’ first app helps docs prescribe antibiotics using local infection data

athenahealth’s January acquisition of mobile health company Epocrates has generated its first market-ready byproduct, as the two brands today announced a joint mobile app called “Bugs + Drugs.” The app for physicians pairs Epocrates’ mobile mastery and clinical content with data from the more than 40 million medical records athenahealth (NASDAQ:ATHN) hosts in the cloud. […]

By Deanna Pogorelc

Health IT

4 observations about the $293 million athenahealth-Epocrates acquisition

With its agreement to purchase Epocrates Inc. (NASDAQ:EPOC), health IT company athenahealth Inc. (NASDAQ:ATHN) is hoping to go mobile, expand its network of customers and strengthen its brand awareness among doctors. Epocrates, the maker of point-of-care reference apps, has accumulated a user base including about 330,000 doctors — the coveted target audience for athenahealth’s SaaS […]

By Deanna Pogorelc

MedCity Influencers

iPads and Doctors – The Perfect Relationship

It's no secret that American physicians are having a love affair with Apple's iPad mobile computing device.

By Samantha Gluck

News

Mobile drug reference company Epocrates buys iPad app developer

Epocrates Inc. -- the San Mateo, California, company that makes mobile drug reference tools -- has acquired Modality Inc. in Durham, North Carolina, for $13.8 million in cash. Modality develops digital learning, assessment, training and reference applications for Apple iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch mobile devices. Its acquisition will expand Epocrates' product portfolio and Apple app-development workforce.

By Mary Vanac

Devices & Diagnostics

Epocrates to try $75 million IPO again

Epocrates, a developer of mobile drug reference tools, registers for a $75 million initial public offering — again. Epocrates Inc. plans to go public — again. The company last week filed for an initial public offering that could bring in as much as $75 million, according to a Securities & Exchange Commission filing. Epocrates makes […]

By MassDevice Staff

News

New health plans offer lower premiums, but fewer choices (Morning Read)

Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of healthcare: New health plans offer lower premiums, but fewer choices: Health insurers are pushing a new breed of plans that offer reduced premiums in return for a narrower choice of doctors. That could spell trouble for President Obama, who frequently repeated the idea that […]

By Brandon Glenn

Devices & Diagnostics

New EMR meaningful use rules praised

New government regulations covering meaningful use of electronic medical records are winning kudos from EMR and healthcare providers alike, with few naysayers piping up. New regulations governing how healthcare providers can prove meaningful use of electronic medical records technology, a hallmark of President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law, are winning praise from both EMR and […]

By MassDevice Staff