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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

The hidden costs of your favorite medical apps

Medical apps are becoming big business. Epocrates is now a publicly traded company worth nearly $500 million. Medscape is owned by WebMD, another publicly traded company worth nearly $3 billion. Despite the clearly powerful financial factors at play here, the most popular and comprehensive apps are free. Even for fee-based apps, the prices and volumes don’t explain the overall financial pictures of the companies behind them. Clearly the money is not coming from the physicians, medical students, and other healthcare professionals who are using these apps. iMedicalApps

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