Drugs.com explained

Drugs.com
Type:Private
Industry:Healthcare

Drugs.com is an online pharmaceutical encyclopedia that provides drug information for consumers and healthcare professionals, primarily in the United States. It self-describes its information as "accurate and independent" yet limited to being "for educational purposes only and is not intended for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment."[1]

Website

The Drugs.com website is owned and operated by the Drugsite Trust, a privately held Trust administered by two New Zealand pharmacists, Karen Ann and Phillip James Thornton.[2] Operated on the IBM Cloud, Drugs.com provides information on some 24,000 drugs, was visited by 50 million users per month in 2021, and has a download time of one second.[3]

The site contains a library of reference information which includes content from Cerner Multum, Micromedex, Truven Health Analytics, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), AHFS, Harvard Health Publications, Mayo Clinic, and Animalytics (a veterinary products database).[2] [4]

Drugs.com is certified by the TRUSTe online privacy certification program[5] and the HONcode of Health on the Net Foundation.[6]

The Drugs.com encyclopedia contains drug information for consumers, a portal for drugs based on diseases, a health professionals database of drug monographs, a natural products database, and a poison control center.[2] Drugs.com is not affiliated with any pharmaceutical companies.[2]

History

The domain Drugs.com was originally registered by Bonnie Neubeck in 1994.[7] In 1999 at the height of the dotcom boom, Eric MacIver purchased an option to buy the domain from Neubeck.[8] In August 1999, MacIver sold the domain at auction for US$823,666 to Venture Frogs, a startup incubator run by Tony Hsieh and Alfred Lin, best known for their involvement in LinkExchange and later Zappos.com.[9] Venture Frogs sold the Drugs.com domain name to a private investor in June 2001, allowing Hsieh and Lin to focus on Zappos.com.[10]

The Drugs.com website was officially launched in September 2001.[3] In March 2008, Drugs.com announced the release of Mednotes[11] — an online personal medication record application which connected to Google Health (On June 24, 2011, Google announced it was retiring Google Health on January 1, 2012).[12]

In May 2010, U.S. FDA announced a collaboration with Drugs.com to distribute consumer health updates on the Drugs.com website and mobile platform.[13]

In February 2016, comScore stated that Drugs.com was the sixth most popular health network receiving approximately 23 million visitors for the month, while Searchmetrics listed Drugs.com in the top 100 US websites for search visibility.[14]

In April 2017, The Harris Poll listed Drugs.com as the Health Information Website Brand of the Year.[15]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Drugs.com . Drugs.com . July 1, 2022 . July 27, 2022 . September 2, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110902032326/http://www.drugs.com/ . live .
  2. Web site: Drugs.com . About Drugs.com . July 1, 2022 . July 27, 2022 . November 15, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101115221104/https://www.drugs.com/support/about.html . live .
  3. Web site: Accurate, independent and on demand - Drugs.com . IBM Corporation . July 27, 2022 . October 2021 . July 28, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220728021209/https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/drugsdotcom/ . live .
  4. Web site: Drugs.com - Editorial Policy. Drugs.com. July 2, 2021. July 27, 2022. September 27, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100927092918/http://www.drugs.com/editorial_policy.html. live.
  5. Web site: Drugs.com, Truste Privacy Certification. TRUSTe. February 17, 2016. November 30, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121130050403/http://privacy.truste.com/privacy-seal/Drugs-com/validation?rid=d18cba4a-afc4-4863-af81-8262bb120271. live.
  6. Web site: Drugs.com HONcode Certificate of Compliance. HONcode. February 17, 2016. June 2, 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20020602141012/http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html?HONConduct756274. dead.
  7. Wired magazine. A Prescription for Riches?. November 21, 1999. July 2, 2010. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100701090256/http://wired-vig.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1999/07/20845. July 1, 2010.
  8. Web site: The best domain names in the world... ever!. https://web.archive.org/web/20100703160242/http://business.highbeam.com/437082/article-1G1-58326312/best-domain-names-world-ever. dead. July 3, 2010 . November 1, 1999 . . July 2, 2010.
  9. Web site: Drugs.com Fetches Nearly a Mil . . August 9, 1999 . July 2, 2010 . July 30, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100730233937/http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1999/08/21190 . live .
  10. Web site: Drugs.com Kicks Domain Habit . . June 1, 2001 . July 2, 2010 . July 30, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100730234212/http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/06/44215 . live .
  11. Web site: Drugs.com Unveils the Next Generation Medication Safety Tool to Help Consumers Avoid Dangerous Drug Interactions. https://web.archive.org/web/20100705123721/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS192237+24-Nov-2008+PRN20081124. dead . July 5, 2010 . November 24, 2008. . July 2, 2010.
  12. Web site: An update on Google Health and Google PowerMeter. 24 June 2011. August 17, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130817012114/http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/update-on-google-health-and-google.html. live.
  13. Web site: Drugs.com Furthers Reach of FDA Consumer Health Information . May 26, 2010 . . July 2, 2010 . July 3, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100703200208/http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm212747.htm . live .
  14. Web site: Search Metrics top 100 sites for United States. February 17, 2016. March 2, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160302051028/http://suite.searchmetrics.com/en/research/visibility-charts/organic/visibility?cc=US. live.
  15. Web site: 2017 Harris Poll EquiTrend® Rankings. April 19, 2017. April 20, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170420143917/http://www.theharrispoll.com/equitrend-rankings/2017#OnlineOrganizations. dead.

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