Transforming Healthcare: Epocrates CEO Kirk Loevner (Part 5)

SM: Is there anything in the software-as-a-service world that you are observing or that you could tie up with? KL: Traditionally all of those IT systems have been client-server types of relationships. All of the newer point solutions emerging are using the software-as-a-service model.

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SM: You did two companies prior to Epocrates which were focused on content? KL: PublishOne and ScreamingMedia were content-oriented. SM: After ScreamingMedia you were recruited to Epocrates? KL: I sold ScreamingMedia to CBS in 2004.

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Transforming Healthcare: Epocrates CEO Kirk Loevner (Part 2)

SM: Where did you go after Apple? KL: I went to Silicon Graphics in 1993. They recruited me away because they wanted to build a developer organization like the one Apple had. That was a tough story.