epocrates

Clinical drug reference and decision support app trusted by over 2 million US physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, and medical students. Make safer, faster prescribing decisions anywhere you practice.

This app puts essential clinical intelligence at your fingertips. Access 10,000+ drug monographs covering brand and generic medications with adult and pediatric dosing, contraindications, black box warnings, and pharmacology details. Check for interactions among up to 30 medications at once to catch potential medication errors before they reach patients. Identify pills instantly by imprint, color, or image—a resource clinicians turn to thousands of times daily.

Beyond drug references, the app includes lab value interpretations and clinical guidance to support diagnostic decisions, weight- and age-based dosing calculators for prescription accuracy, and evidence-based symptom evaluation tools paired with disease guides. Search herbal, supplement, and alternative medicine information alongside known interactions. For rural, remote, or on-the-go practice, full offline access means you're never without critical clinical data.

Epocrates is updated continuously by medical editors and healthcare experts, ensuring you always have current, accurate information. The integrated toolset—pill identifier, drug interaction checker, dosing calculators, and lab lookups—streamlines prescribing workflows and reduces the time spent searching for clinical answers. Clinicians report saving hours each week by consolidating reference tasks into one trusted app.

The platform enhances patient safety through evidence-based guidance and interaction alerts, helping reduce medication errors across prescribing, pharmacy, and point-of-care settings. Whether you're entering ICD-10 codes, verifying a prescription, or looking up dosing for a pediatric patient, results arrive fast and reliably.

Premium features are available through subscription, which renews automatically unless canceled. Manage your subscription anytime through your device settings. Download epocrates today to support safer, faster clinical decisions with the decision support app trusted by prescribers across the United States.