11-09-2004, 06:00 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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A Medical Freebie for Pocket PC
"Epocrates Rx is our free drug and formulary reference, providing the most up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug and formulary information available."
Medical programs for the Pocket PC aren't always the cheapest of all things, so when one is offered for free, it's hard to ignore. Epocrates Rx is continually updated and provides comprehensive information on a variety of branded and generic drugs. So if you're a doctor, nurse, or drug enthusiast, why not give it a go today? 
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11-09-2004, 06:23 PM
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Editorial Contributor
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Re: A Medical Freebie for Pocket PC
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
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:?: What exactly would that mean :?:
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11-09-2004, 08:11 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 545
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Weirdness....
I have installed it, but ePocrates never showed up in Active sync. I was able to navigate to the program and run it by hand which finally got everything on my PDA I needed. Now I will just update it from my WiFi network. They REALLY need to just use the net to autoupdate things like this. Would even work with a cradle through the passthrough. They could even have just go and grab the new stuff or ask you when you first open it. That way you can update it when you want to and you don't have a wacky Activestink plugin to deal with.
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11-09-2004, 08:40 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 94
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I have een waiting on this for a long time. I used to use it all the time in the dark Ages when I used a Palm.
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11-09-2004, 08:57 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,734
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You really have to jump through hoops to download this. They wanted to know everything accept the name of my second son 
Hopefully this will help me kill less patients :devilboy:
Surur
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11-09-2004, 09:14 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 6
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I installed ePocrates to my pocket PC initially to the SD card because I didn't see any documentation that said you couldn't install it there. When I tried to run the program, I got a message that said that the "subscription had expired" and to auto-sync again. When I tried auto-synching, nothing happened. I called the Epocrates support people and they told me that the program COULD NOT run on the storage card and said it was listed in the "system requirements" section. I then uninstalled the program and tried to re-install to the main memory. When I installed to the main memory, the pocket PC no longer recognized my storage card (I had just performed a back-up to the SD card just before installing Epocrates in case there were any problems); but now, since it didn't recognize the card, despite several resets, and taking the card out several times and re-inserting it, I ended up having to do a hard reset. I ended up having to do 2 hard resets before I was able to get the device to recognize the storage card and restore the backup.
I called back the Epocrates support line and they told me I had to contact the "device manufacturer" as they had no reports of this problem before. I have had no problems with my pocket PC (Ipaq 6315) recognizing the SD card before installing Epocrates.
So I would recommend:
1. DO NOT install Epocrates to the storage card on the Pocket PC.
2. Back-up your device to your desktop (not just your SD card) prior to installing
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11-09-2004, 11:13 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 68
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I dl'd this morning, & was getting the same errors as you. Maybe I'll just leave it on the storage card until I feel like doing a hard-reset.
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11-09-2004, 11:20 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 1
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javascript:emoticon(':wink:')
Wink
ePocrates may be free (if you're willing to give them a lot of information), but there are much better references available. I have tried ePocrates and find it vastly inferior to LexiDrugs, which is what I use. LexiDrugs costs $75 per year, but is very comprehensive and they update it almost daily. Lexi interfaces with ActiveSync well and they provide a Java applet that updates it with just one click.
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11-10-2004, 01:35 AM
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2000 Posts And This is All I Get?
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 2,017
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Correct me if I am wrong.
The freebie epocrates RX is a standalone program, which means all the drug reference is downloaded into your PDA, so you can use it without getting online ?
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11-10-2004, 02:59 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 12,959
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Re: A Medical Freebie for Pocket PC
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Originally Posted by Sven
:?: What exactly would that mean :?:
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It was meant to be a joke, but I guess cross-culturally, it doesn't really work. 
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