Epocrates launched the latest version [2.51] yesterday. It delivers significant improvements over the previous versions but most noticable is the new disease images which we have been waiting for quite long time.
The images added are not just a bunch of nice images to say that the app has images, no, there are hundreds of them and many many dx entries are supplemented with [sometimes more than one] images which are crisp clear and highly relevant.
Sadly, however, these images are not actually hosted on the native app and requires 3G or Wifi connection whenever requested. This is unfortunate because it means that we highly unlikely to see these images in closed CT scan and other hospital indoors still lacking adequate Wifi. Probably add these images to the Epocrates app would significantly increase the memory requirements that’s they avoided that.
Another great enhancement in the latest version is the landscape mode which is previously unsupported, here’s how it looks
Also now the search page include extra options such as disease by system and labs but still we want to see the major search box in all the sections and not only the main page.
Bottom line, Epocrates continues to demonstrate commitment in providing the latest updates with more and more features time after time consistantly.
However, we are still waiting for Sx and CME to arrive on the iPhone, version 3.0 perhaps!
The landscape mode is useless
Epocrates will continue to be the best PDA resource ever on the PDA Period