Australian Medicines Handbook

What Australian Medicines Handbook does

Australian Medicines Handbook Pty Ltd (AMH) is an Adelaide-based proprietary limited company that publishes concise, evidence-based medicines information for healthcare practitioners across Australia and New Zealand. Its core product is the Australian Medicines Handbook, available in hardcopy and electronic (web, desktop, and mobile app) formats, supported by two specialised companion resources: the AMH Children's Dosing Companion and the AMH Aged Care Companion. Content is developed by qualified health professionals and extensively peer-reviewed through a rolling review process, with major scheduled updates in January and July (AMH) and May (Aged Care Companion).

AMH is jointly owned by three Australian peak professional bodies — the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA), and the Australian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists (ASCEPT) — which provides editorial governance, institutional credibility, and distribution through member networks. The company is explicitly independent of the pharmaceutical industry, accepting no advertising, sponsorship, or other industry support.

Commercially, AMH monetises through 12-month recurring subscription licences structured into three tiers: Personal/Academic, Small/Medium Business (turnover <A$20m, <20 devices), and Corporate/Institutional (turnover >A$20m, >20 devices) with negotiated multi-year enterprise contracts. Bundled packages include the Pharmacy Online Package (3-user single site) and the AMH+ACC Online Package. Distribution combines direct e-commerce via shop.amh.net.au, the AMH App, authorised physical stockists, and professional body channels. Licence terms restrict use to Australia and New Zealand, making AMH a regionally focused, profession-owned professional reference publisher.

Name

Australian Medicines Handbook

Legal name

Australian Medicines Handbook Pty Ltd

Website

https://shop.amh.net.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Australian Medicines Handbook is an Adelaide-based, profession-owned publisher of evidence-based medicines reference resources (AMH, Children's Dosing Companion, Aged Care Companion) serving Australian and New Zealand healthcare practitioners via subscriptions and print products.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Medicines Information Reference

akta.pro primary industry

Medication Reconciliation & Medication History (HLACAKAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Medication Management Coordination & Polypharmacy Review (HLADALAE), Medication Education, Counseling & Side-Effect Monitoring (HSABALAJ)

Keywords

• Medicines information reference
• Drug dosing database
• Clinical decision support
• Healthcare professional resources
• Pharmaceutical reference books

Headquarters

HQ city

Adelaide

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription Licences: 12-month subscription licences for digital and print products, sold in tiers from personal/academic use to corporate/institutional enterprise contracts. Revenue recurs annually with automatic renewal options.
2. Book Sales: Physical hardcopy books sold directly to healthcare practitioners, pharmacies, and institutions as one-time purchases or bundled with digital subscriptions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Australian Medicines Handbook Pty Ltd publishes concise, evidence-based medicines information for busy healthcare practitioners in Australia and New Zealand. Its core product line includes the Australian Medicines Handbook (AMH), the AMH Children's Dosing Companion, and the AMH Aged Care Companion, delivered as annual printed editions, web-based subscriptions (AMH Online), and a mobile/desktop application (AMH App), with content updated automatically in January, May, and July.

Product overview

Australian Medicines Handbook publishes a portfolio of evidence-based medicines information resources for Australian healthcare practitioners. The core offering is the Australian Medicines Handbook (AMH), available as a printed book or electronic online subscription. The portfolio includes two specialized companion products: the AMH Children's Dosing Companion (for pediatric dosing) and the AMH Aged Care Companion (for medicine use in older patients). Electronic access is available via the AMH Online web platform, the AMH App (mobile/desktop), or bundled packages such as the Pharmacy Online Package which combines AMH Online (3-user) with the physical book. The company also offers various licence tiers for personal/academic, small/medium business, and corporate/institutional users.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Australian Medicines Handbook: Primary reference resource - concise, easy-to-use, evidence-based medicines information for healthcare practitioners
• AMH Children's Dosing Companion
• AMH Aged Care Companion

Products and services

• Australian Medicines Handbook (AMH) Book Concise, easy-to-use, evidence-based medicines information resource in hardcopy book form for busy healthcare practitioners, providing drug monographs, clinical guidance, and updated terminology.
• AMH Online Web-based subscription providing electronic access to the Australian Medicines Handbook database, with automatic content updates in January and July, for individual, small/medium, and corporate/institutional licence holders.
• AMH App Mobile and desktop application providing offline and online access to AMH content via download from the company website or third-party app stores.
• AMH Children's Dosing Companion Specialised companion resource providing dosing information specifically for paediatric patients, available in book and online formats.
• AMH Aged Care Companion Companion resource focused on appropriate medicine use in older people, covering medication management considerations for elderly patients, with annual updates released in May.
• Pharmacy Online Package Bundle offering a 12-month, three-user single site licence for AMH Online plus a copy of the current AMH Book, designed for busy community pharmacies with multiple workstations.
• AMH Online and ACC Online Package Bundle offering a 12-month single-user licence for both AMH Online and AMH Aged Care Companion Online, with automatic content updates in January and July for AMH and in May for ACC.

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)coreOthersJoint owner of Australian Medicines Handbook. RACGP is Australia's largest professional body for general practitioners, providing governance and editorial oversight for the medicines reference.
• Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA)coreOthersJoint owner of Australian Medicines Handbook. PSA is the national professional body for pharmacists in Australia, contributing to editorial governance and professional oversight.
• Australian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists (ASCEPT)coreOthersJoint owner of Australian Medicines Handbook. ASCEPT contributes scientific and clinical expertise to ensure the quality and accuracy of medicines information.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• DynaMed: DynaMed (EBSCO) is an evidence-based clinical reference used by clinicians worldwide, with growing adoption in Australia. It overlaps with AMH's evidence-based drug and clinical guidance but is delivered as a more general point-of-care tool.
• Epocrates: Epocrates is a mobile-first drug reference app widely used by individual prescribers. It overlaps with AMH's individual practitioner and small clinic use cases via a similar subscription / freemium mobile delivery model.
• BMJ Best Practice: BMJ Best Practice is a global clinical decision support resource covering diagnosis and treatment, including drug monographs. It competes for institutional licences from Australian hospitals and universities.

Broad incumbents

• Micromedex: Micromedex (Merck) provides global drug information, toxicology, and disease references widely licensed to Australian hospitals. It competes with AMH in the enterprise hospital reference segment.
• Lexicomp: Lexicomp, owned by Wolters Kluwer, is a leading global drug information and clinical decision support solution widely used in Australian hospitals and embedded into EMR workflows. It is a broader incumbent offering overlapping monographs and interactions content.
• UpToDate: UpToDate (Wolters Kluwer) is the dominant global evidence-based clinical decision support resource used by Australian clinicians. It overlaps with AMH on drug and treatment information but covers the full breadth of clinical conditions.

Direct peers

• Therapeutic Guidelines (eTG): Therapeutic Guidelines publishes evidence-based clinical practice guidelines widely used by Australian prescribers and pharmacists. It overlaps with AMH in addressing evidence-based clinical decision support, though it focuses on treatment guidelines rather than drug monographs.
• AusDI: AusDI is an Australian drug information reference providing monographs, interactions, and consumer medicine information for healthcare professionals. It is a direct competitor serving the same Australian prescriber and pharmacist audience as AMH.
• MIMS Australia: MIMS is Australia's other dominant drug information reference, offering a comparable medicines database used by GPs, pharmacists, and hospitals across the country. It is the most direct head-to-head competitor to AMH in the Australian market.

Others

• First Databank (FDB): First Databank supplies drug knowledge bases (MedKnowledge) that are embedded into EMR, ePrescribing, and pharmacy systems globally, including in Australia. It is an upstream data provider rather than a direct subscriber-facing reference, but competes for institutional drug-information spend.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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