Medscape Introduces First Suite of Mobile Device Applications

Within the first week, more than 10,000 pre-register for Medscape Mobile, demonstrating significant reach and demand for wireless applications

Medscape (Nasdaq:MDLI), the leading provider of digital health record tools and online health information, announces its launch of Medscape Mobile, an exclusive suite of web-enabled applications designed for the leading Palm(R) personal digital assistant (PDA).

The first ever product of its kind, Medscape Mobile gives physicians wireless access to patient-specific information and the most relevant information for clinical decision-making, whenever and wherever they need it.

This new offering by Medscape positions the company to capitalize on the exploding demand for web-enabled PDAs and cellular phones and exemplifies the company's focus on the timely delivery of clinical data and authoritative information to physicians. To date, Medscape Mobile has pre-registered more than 10,000 users online, harnessing the widespread interest in linking mobile applications with digital health record tools in the clinical workflow.

"Medscape Mobile enables physicians to effortlessly begin implementing digital health record tools into their practices," said Mark Leavitt, M.D., Ph.D., Medscape chairman. "It also provides physicians with a natural, progressive path toward integrating the power and depth of digital health records and up-to-date information."

In its first phase, Medscape Mobile offers a set of clinical references for mobile devices including Tarascon ePharmacopoeia, the electronic version of Tarascon's market-leading portable drug reference, the Pocket Pharmacopoeia. It also offers the Medscape Reader for reading Medscape.com articles and conference summaries and a Medical Calculator including over 50 dosing and clinical formulas. Medscape is the exclusive distributor of the ePharmacopoeia and is distributing it for free on Medscape.com. The paper-based version of the product is the top selling portable drug reference, selling hundreds of thousands of copies each year.

"Medscape Mobile offers me instant access to my most valued patient information anytime, anywhere," said Dr. Larry Kosinski, a gastroenterologist and physician partner at Elgin Gastroenterology in Elgin, Illinois. "It takes useful data, like a pocket drug reference, a calculator to assist with drug dosing and the latest journal articles, and puts them on the most useful and practical device for a physician, the Palm PDA. It turns my personal digital assistant into my personal medical assistant at no cost to me."

The components in this initial phase of Medscape Mobile are part of a larger family of clinical applications that will be offered in upcoming months, such as:

-- Wireless access protocol (WAP)-enabled cellular access to the

        Medscape Chart Room affording physicians wireless access to
        patient chart summaries created using Medscape Chart Note
        (formerly Logician Internet);

    --  Additional clinical workflow tools, including electronic drug
        formulary management and drug interaction checking; and

    --  Prescription writing for wireless handheld devices, affording
        healthcare providers the ability to create and send
        prescriptions wirelessly to pharmacies.

"The forthcoming functionality embraces wireless technology solutions to directly transmit prescriptions from the point of care to the pharmacy, resulting in fewer errors and better healthcare for patients and physicians," said Leavitt.

Medscape Mobile can be downloaded for free at: www.medscape.com.


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