Epocrates

Epocrates is a mobile clinical reference application, part of athenahealth, relied on by healthcare professionals for more than 25 years to support point-of-care decisions. It provides a drug reference database, a drug-drug interaction checker, a pill identifier, clinical practice guidelines, medical calculators, and a herbs and supplements reference, with the premium epocrates+ subscription adding expanded content. Epocrates does not publish a public developer API or SDK; this profile captures the company's public web identity and domain-security posture for the API Evangelist network. Sector: healthcare.

Epocrates is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Healthcare, Medical Reference, Drug Database, and Clinical Decision Support.

Epocrates’ developer surface includes support and 5 more developer resources.

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14.6/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

0 APIs

CompanyHealthcareMedical ReferenceDrug DatabaseClinical Decision SupportDrug InteractionsMobile Appathenahealth

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 14.6/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

HelpCenter

HelpCenter

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: epocrates
name: Epocrates
description: 'Epocrates is a mobile clinical reference application, part of athenahealth, relied on by healthcare professionals
  for more than 25 years to support point-of-care decisions. It provides a drug reference database, a drug-drug interaction
  checker, a pill identifier, clinical practice guidelines, medical calculators, and a herbs and supplements reference, with
  the premium epocrates+ subscription adding expanded content. Epocrates does not publish a public developer API or SDK; this
  profile captures the company''s public web identity and domain-security posture for the API Evangelist network. Sector:
  healthcare.'
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/677fcc59828e8254194b675f/68514dba3d8045d448f62ced_icon.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/epocrates/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- threshold-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Healthcare
- Medical Reference
- Drug Database
- Clinical Decision Support
- Drug Interactions
- Mobile App
- athenahealth
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: http://www.epocrates.com/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.epocrates.com/discover/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.epocrates.com/discover/terms-of-use
- type: Support
  url: https://www.epocrates.com/online/feedback
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://www.epocrates.com/discover/faq
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/epocrates-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence