AHFS Consumer Medication Information
The Guide to Patient Drug Information
Give patients easy-to-use written instructions on their drug therapy with one of the most effective patient counseling tools you’ll find anywhere. You receive over 1000 generic drug monographs, including the top 200 most prescribed medications, representing approximately 45,000 drug products.
Licensing our NDC or RxNorm mapping files will allow you to quickly and accurately map our monograph data to a point of care vendor system while reserving manpower for other components of your development project.
Key Features:
- Available in XML
- Available in English and Spanish
- 1075 drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers
- Updated monthly
- Conforms to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Keystone Guidelines for the provision of “useful” prescription medicine information to consumers
- Includes “How To” monographs for administering different types of medications
- The AHFS Consumer Medication Information database became the first private sector publication developed for educating consumers and patients about their drugs
- Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists—long recognized as an authority on educating patients about drug use and safety, and a founding member of the National Council on Patient Information and Education (NCPIE)
- The AHFS Consumer Medication Information database is a Top Ten Award Winner in the Department of Health and Human Services National Consumer Education Materials Contest
License the content that is the backbone of consumer-oriented drug information of many popular websites. To integrate AHFS Consumer Medication Information into your website or software application, please request licensing information here.