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Epocrates Helps Users Retire Their Cradles Epocrates Alliance with Cingular Wireless Allows Clinicians to Abandon Synch Devices, Receive Wireless Updates to Critical Clinical Information on Handhelds SAN MATEO, Calif. and ATLANTA, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare professionals who subscribe to the Epocrates(R) clinical software applications, including the Essentials mobile clinical reference suite, can now receive regular updates of vital drug, disease and diagnostics information on their wireless handhelds just about wherever they are through an alliance announced today by Epocrates, Inc. and Cingular Wireless. The two companies will conduct joint sales and joint marketing activities under the agreement. Cingular Wireless is the first national wireless provider to certify Epocrates Essentials for wireless wide area network use. This gives Epocrates subscribers the ability to abandon their wireline synch cradles, and receive reliable and secure wireless updates to content on their palmOne(TM) Treo(TM) 650, Siemens SX66 PDA or Audiovox PocketPC 4100 PDA when mobile in any of the 8,500 cities and towns across the U.S. in which Cingular Wireless provides coverage via its GSM(TM)/GPRS/EDGE wireless data network. "Our alliance with Cingular Wireless provides Epocrates customers with another level of assurance that they have the most current information at the point-of-care," said Kirk Loevner, President & CEO, Epocrates. "The immediacy this relationship provides goes beyond providing up-to-date clinical information. It also ensures that clinicians will be instantly notified through our DocAlert(R) messaging system with medication safety alerts and other breaking clinical news." "Our relationship with Epocrates allows healthcare professionals the ability to access up-to-date clinical reference data on a Cingular Wireless handheld device," said Laura Johnson, director, industry solutions, for Cingular Wireless. "As part of an end-to-end wireless data solution for healthcare providers, Epocrates helps clinicians provide the highest level of care whether they are located at the point of care or miles away from the hospital or office. This provides the medical community with an unprecedented level of mobility." The Epocrates Essentials mobile clinical reference suite features all of the key decision support applications -- spanning drugs, diseases, and diagnostics -- required for today's health care professional. The suite includes the Epocrates Rx Pro(TM) drug reference with over 3,000 monographs including adult and pediatric dosing, contraindications and cautions, and adverse reactions, an infectious disease guide, an alternative medicine guide covering over 400 herbals, and access to drug cost and health plan coverage and co-pay information; the Epocrates Dx(TM) disease guide featuring over 1,200 conditions and diagnoses described in extensive detail, quick treatment reminders, signs and symptoms, differential diagnoses, medications and more; and the Epocrates Lab(TM) diagnostic reference with information on hundreds of tests, including collection, interpretation and next steps. Cingular Wireless offers clinicians extensive data coverage in North America on the nationwide GSM/GPRS/EDGE network. Mobile healthcare professionals can choose from a broad range of handheld devices such as the palmOne Treo 650, Siemens SX66 or Audiovox PPC 4100, which combine the capabilities of a PDA with integrated wireless data, voice, organization and messaging features for a powerful mobile computing experience, as well as Sierra Wireless 775 and Sony Ericsson GC83 EDGE PC Modem Cards for laptops. About Cingular Wireless Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, serving more than 49 million customers. Cingular, a joint venture between SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) and BellSouth Corporation (NYSE:BLS), has the largest digital voice and data network in the nation - the ALLOVER(SM) network - and the largest mobile-to-mobile community of any national wireless carrier. Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover(SM), the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Details of the company are available at http://www.cingular.com/ . Get Cingular Wireless press releases e-mailed to you automatically. Sign up at http://www.cingular.com/newsroom . About Epocrates, Inc. San Mateo, CA-based Epocrates brings together essential clinical information, relationships and tools to transform the practice of medicine. More than 1 in 4 U.S. physicians, students at every U.S. medical school and hundreds of thousands of other allied healthcare professionals use its point- of-care clinical decision support products and services in practice every day. Epocrates' products have shown a positive impact on patient safety, health care efficiency, and ultimately patient satisfaction. For more information visit http://www.epocrates.com/ . DATASOURCE: Cingular Wireless CONTACT: Katherine Thornberry of Epocrates Inc., +1-650-227-1713, or ; or John Kampfe of Cingular Wireless, +1-908-696-4536, or wireless, +1-908-432-3473 Web site: http://www.cingular.com/ http://www.epocrates.com/

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