med-info

What This Skill Does

med-info is an authoritative retrieval agent designed to bridge the gap between complex FDA medication labels and actionable data. It provides a standardized interface for querying medication information using drug names or industry-standard identifiers such as RxCUI, NDC, or SPL set_id. By aggregating data from openFDA, DailyMed, and RxNorm, the skill delivers cited, traceable information that is ideal for clinical documentation, professional training, and automated healthcare pipelines. Unlike general-purpose LLMs that may hallucinate medical details, med-info anchors its responses in official labeling, surfacing critical sections like boxed warnings, contraindications, and dosing, while offering opt-in modules for safety data, including recalls, shortages, and FAERS reports.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, run the following command via the terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/duncandobbins/med-info Ensure you have the necessary environment access to interact with the external APIs mentioned in the documentation for real-time data fetching.

Use Cases

• Clinical Decision Support: Providing quick, cited access to contraindications and warning sections for healthcare professionals during patient charting.
• Quality Assurance: Verifying labeling consistency across different product versions by cross-referencing SPL set_ids.
• Supply Chain Monitoring: Automatically tracking medication shortages or active recalls to inform administrative decision-making.
• Pharmacovigilance: Aggregating FAERS (FDA Adverse Event Reporting System) data for specific drug candidates to identify potential safety signals.
• Regulatory Compliance: Mapping drug interactions and classification systems (RxClass) for internal documentation and drug safety training.

Example Prompts

1. "Look up Eliquis and tell me if there are any specific contraindications or boxed warnings I should be aware of."
2. "Find any active shortages for Metformin and list the recent recall information if available."
3. "Check for potential drug interactions for a patient taking both Warfarin and Aspirin, providing citations for each."

Tips & Limitations

• Safety First: This skill does not provide medical advice. Always treat outputs as supplementary information for professional review.
• Privacy: Never input Protected Health Information (PHI). Use only generic drug names or clinical identifiers.
• Disambiguation: When querying common drug names that may have multiple manufacturers or formulations, use the --candidates flag to select the correct specific SPL set_id.
• Precision: For production-grade pipelines, prioritize using deterministic identifiers like NDC or SPL set_id over natural language drug names to ensure reproducible results.