# Epocrates

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/epocrates/  
**Website:** http://www.epocrates.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 10.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 4.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 17.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Epocrates Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Healthcare, Medical Reference, Drug Database, Clinical Decision Support, Drug Interactions, Mobile App, Athenahealth

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/epocrates/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.