company based in san francisco california that makes various mobile health software applications under the epocrates name mostly for health care providers providing them reference information about drugs and diseases and diagnostic tools . contents 1 products 2 management team 3 history 4 references 5 external links products edit epocrates is a publisher of mobile device software applications designed to provide information about drugs to doctors and other health care professionals . among the software functions is checking for drug interactions 1 news feeds for product announcements and medical news journal article lookup as well as a mobile guide to icd 9 and current procedural terminology cpt diagnosis codes . the application is widely available and sometimes free . one can download the application easily to an iphone or android device so it is easily accessible . 2 the company markets both free and multiple paid versions . 3 it receives additional revenue from pharmaceutical companies . 4 the company was founded in 1998 . 5 early versions of epocrates ran on palm devices 6 and desktop computers . the user base was 525 000 users worldwide including 200 000 doctors in the united states in 2006 . 4 as of 2006 update the company was also active in the united kingdom canada germany and spain . 4 among its competitors is webmd . 4 by 2010 the company said it had 1 million users worldwide including 40 % of the physicians in the united states 7 and that it employed more than 250 people . 5 management team edit rob cosinuke president 8 heather gervais senior vice president commercial operations 8 dr. anne meneghetti executive director of medical information 8 abbe don vice president of user experience 8 history edit epocrates early funders included bay city capital draper fisher jurvetson interwest partners sprout group and three arch partners . 4 after a 2008 public offering was put on hold 9 epocrates filed a registration statement again in july 2010 to raise 75 million . 7 on january 7 2013 it was announced that athenahealth is acquiring epocrates for about 293 million . 10 references edit candice novak may 14 2008 . healthcare it company is going public after partnering with apple . us news . epocrates inc. . hoovers . last day to get epocrates essentials for free for medical students . medgadget . august 31 2010 . a b c d e chris rauber august 18 2006 . epocrates putting drug info into docs pockets . san francisco business times . a b media room . epocrates . milt freudenheim january 8 2001 . digital doctoring ; the race is on to put a computer into every physician s hand . new york times . a b epocrates files to raise up to 75m in ipo . san francisco business times . july 16 2010 . a b c d leadership team . retrieved 14 january 2014 . chris rauber september 19 2008 . epocrates ipo on hold . san francisco business times . athenahealth acquires epocrates the angry birds of healt . bloomberg . january 7 2013 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title epocrates & oldid 744065237 categories medical websitestelehealthcompanies listed on nasdaqhidden categories articles containing potentially dated statements from 2006all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 october 2016 at 22 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view