Nearly 1 in 4 Americans takes a prescription drug alongside a dietary supplement. That's roughly 75 million people who might not know that their fish oil could be amplifying their blood thinner, or that their St. John's Wort is undermining their antidepressant.
If you're building a health app, a pharmacy tool, or any patient-facing software, drug interaction checking isn't a nice-to-have -- it's table stakes.
The problem is that getting reliable interaction data into your app has historically been painful.
The Problem: Separate Databases, None of Them Talk to Each Other
The US government maintains excellent drug and supplement data. It's authoritative, it's free, and it's scattered across separate systems with different formats:
