medication database?

Out of curiosity, does anyone know where the medication database comes from that Apple is using for the medication reminder function? I’m sort of amazed by what it has and doesn’t have…particularly the presence of specialty multivitamins but not the general multivitamins of lines like One-A-Day, Centrum etc.

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You guys get a database? Does anyone know if it’s US-only or something? On my side, it seems to just be a free text field for the medication name, and then I have to specify everything else myself (shape, form…) Even for basic stuff like Ibuprofen.

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I believe the database and drug interaction information is US-only

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You can get access to the database and searching via the camera by changing your phone region to English (US) in your iPhone settings.

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Same here, only free text fields

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Elsevier, they run the state licensing for nursing and other medical positions. They literally make my pharmacology book, they’re legit.

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What’s up with the weird vitamin holes? I guess you could say that Apple Health is only keeping track of medications and not supplements, but the fact that they have, for example, One-A-Day Maximum and One-A-Day Women’s Prenatal but not the other One-A-Day varieties kinda mystifies me…

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Thanks for this answer. Do you have a source?