Medication API Evaluation Checklist

A checklist for data fitness, developer experience, operational reliability, and commercial constraints.

Data and identifiers

Data and identifiers is the first design decision for medication APIs. A checklist for data fitness, developer experience, operational reliability, and commercial constraints. Write the boundary down before choosing endpoints or drawing clinical-looking UI so reviewers can test the actual promise.

Clinical governance

For medication APIs, clinical governance should remain observable rather than becoming hidden adapter behavior. Give resolution, lookup, and interpretation separate states, then decide which failures a user may retry.

API ergonomics

API ergonomics needs an operational test, not only a happy-path example. Add a bounded timeout, stable error handling, request IDs, privacy-safe logging, and a fixture that proves the medication APIs workflow fails closed.