Most healthcare professionals are aware of the dangers of drug diversion (theft by healthcare workers) and our minds almost always go to the opioid medication tracking and other controlled substances as the crux of the problem. The Coronavirus pandemic has reminded us though, that drug diversion can happen with just about any resource that’s valuable and in short supply, such as COVID-19 vaccinations, oncology drugs, and more. That’s one of the many reasons it’s crucial that drug diversion detection happens as quickly as possible — and that’s where advanced analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning are becoming so vital to drug diversion detection, investigation, adjudication, and reporting.

Now, more than ever before, we believe you need a comprehensive drug diversion detection strategy that covers all medications, all departments, and all facilities in your healthcare system. We’ve put together the following resources to help.

To get started, here’s an article that explains why you need to think beyond patient care and consider the risk for drug theft across your entire hospital supply chain, from wholesaler to wasting and reverse distribution. You simply can’t afford to have a leaky supply chain where there’s a risk for controlled substances to go missing.

One of the biggest barriers to effective drug diversion detection is the ability to sort through all the data needed to uncover the incidents that are most likely to be drug diversion — and it needs to happen fast, because the most dangerous time for hospitals is the lapse between when an employee begins to divert and when they’re caught. Invistics’ 20+ years of experience developing software to track and report on inventory comes in very handy here. This executive brief can help you visualize how Flowlytics works. For hospital systems that want to implement a tried and true solution proven to scale across multiple systems and locations in 13 weeks — or even less — Flowlytics is definitely worth a look.