Drugs.com
公司類型私人公司
成立September 2001
产业医疗卫生
网站Drugs.com

Drugs.com 是一個線上藥物百科,提供藥物資訊給消費者和專業人員。

is an online pharmaceutical encyclopedia which provides drug information for consumers and healthcare professionals primarily in the USA.

歷史 编辑

Drugs.com這個域名原本由Bonnie Neubeck在1994年註冊。 The domain Drugs.com was originally registered by Bonnie Neubeck in 1994.

[1]

於1999年互聯網熱潮時,Eric MacIver purchased an option to buy the domain from Neubeck.

[2]

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英语Alfred Lin, best known for their involvement in LinkExchange英语LinkExchange and later Zappos.com.

[3] Venture Frogs sold the drugs.com domain name to a private investor in June 2001, allowing Hsieh & Lin to focus on Zappos.com.

[4]

The Drugs.com website is owned and operated by the Drugsite Trust. The Drugsite Trust is a privately held Trust administered by two New Zealand pharmacists.[5]

網站 编辑

現今的Drugs.com網站於2001年9月正式推出[6]

The site contains a library of reference information which includes content from Cerner Multum, Micromedex英语Micromedex from Truven Health Analytics英语Truven Health Analytics, Wolters Kluwer Health英语Wolters Kluwer Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), A.D.A.M英语A.D.A.M., Inc.., Stedmans英语Stedman's Medical Dictionary, AHFS英语American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Harvard Health Publications, Mayoclinic, North American Compendiums, & Healthday.

[7]

In March 2008, Drugs.com announced the release of Mednotes

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—an online personal medication record application which connected to Google Health英语Google Health (On June 24, 2011 Google announced it was retiring Google Health in January 1, 2012

[9] ).

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.[10]

In February 2016, comScore英语comScore stated that Drugs.com was the sixth most popular health network receiving approximately 23 visitors for the month, while Searchmetrics英语Searchmetrics listed Drugs.com in the top 100 US websites for search visibility.[11]

Drugs.com is certified by the TRUSTe online privacy certification program[12] and the HONcode Health on the Net Foundation.[13]

參考資料 编辑

  1. ^ A Prescription for Riches?. Wired.com. November 21, 1999 [July 2, 2010]. 
  2. ^ The best domain names in the world... ever!. Internet Magazine英语Internet Magazine. November 1, 1999 [July 2, 2010]. 
  3. ^ Drugs.com Fetches Nearly a Mil. Wired.com. August 9, 1999 [July 2, 2010]. 
  4. ^ Drugs.com Kicks Domain Habit. Wired.com. June 1, 2001 [July 2, 2010]. 
  5. ^ About Drugs.com. [30 June 2013]. 
  6. ^ Internet Archive Wayback Machine. [July 2, 2010]. 
  7. ^ Editorial Policy. [February 17, 2016]. 
  8. ^ Drugs.com Unveils the Next Generation Medication Safety Tool to Help Consumers Avoid Dangerous Drug Interactions. Reuters. November 24, 2008 [July 2, 2010]. 
  9. ^ An update on Google Health and Google PowerMeter. [24 June 2011]. 
  10. ^ FDA Announces Collaboration with Drugs.com. Food and Drug Administration. May 26, 2010 [July 2, 2010]. 
  11. ^ Search Metrics top 100 sites for United States. [February 17, 2016]. 
  12. ^ Drugs.com Truste Privacy Certification. TRUSTe. [February 17, 2016]. 
  13. ^ Drugs.com HONcode Certificate of Compliance. HONcode. [February 17, 2016]. 

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