DrugShortages 4+
Food and Drug Administration
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Access to drug shortage information is now easier and faster. FDA has developed an app that allows users to quickly identify current drug shortages, resolved shortages, and discontinuations of drug products. This app was developed to accelerate public access to important – and sometimes critical -- information about drug shortages. The application uses a searchable database to provide real-time information to key stakeholders, including health care practitioners and pharmacists. The app:
• helps health care practitioners make quick decisions about patient treatment
• allows users to search for a generic name or active ingredient, and browse by alphabetic list or therapeutic category
• provides information on how to report a shortage or supply issue, and links to other resources from FDA and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP).
What’s New
Version 1.0
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Ratings and Reviews
Not serving its purpose
Users of this app are supposed to have the option to “receive notifications when there is new to updated information about a drug product shortage,” but either a notification feature is really hard to find, or it doesn’t exist. From what I can see, the app just allows users to search a database to check if there’s a shortage of a given drug (which you can also do on the FDA website).
Still not accurate
A couple of months later and i do is still out of date. Appears to be abandonware at this point. Just go to the FDA web site.
Not accurate
Out of date information.
App Privacy
The developer, Food and Drug Administration, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
No Details Provided
The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.
Information
- Seller
- Food and Drug Administration
- Size
- 8.2 MB
- Category
- Medical
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 6.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, German
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © FDA
- Price
- Free