DailyMed
DailyMed is a website operated by the U.S. National Library of Medicine to publish up-to-date and accurate drug labels to health care providers and the general public. The contents of DailyMed is provided and updated daily by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA in turn collects this information from the pharmaceutical industry.
The documents published use the HL7 version 3 Structured Product Labeling standard, which is an XML format that combines the human readable text of the product label with structured data elements that describe the composition, form, packaging, and other properties of the drug products in detail according to the HL7 Reference Information Model.
, it contained information about 105,355 drug listings.
It includes an RSS feed for updated drug information.History
In 2006 the FDA revised the drug label and also created DailyMed to keep prescription information up to date.
