Collaboration Assures Essential Patient Safety with Behavioral Analytics & Prevention of Drug Mismanagement as Leading Swedish Innovator Expands into United States Minneapolis, Minn. and Uppsala, Sweden - (June 13, 2018) Pharmacolog AB and HelioMetrics today announced a new partnership that will deliver solutions designed to stop drug diversion and provide safe administration of IV medications [...]
As National Opioid Epidemic Accelerates, One of Michigan’s Top Healthcare Systems Safeguards Its Patients and Staff with Premier Diversion Platform Minneapolis, Minn. and St. Joseph, Mich. (April 16, 2018) – HelioMetrics, a complete drug diversion software platform, today announced a partnership with Lakeland Health to help protect patients and mitigate potential narcotic diversion across its [...]
How many hours are currently being spent each month on eMAR reconciliation? How many staff are involved in the eMAR reconciliation process? What is the cost of eMAR reconciliation? eMAR reconciliation is time consuming, onerous and invaluable in the identification of suspect behavior with controlled substances. HelioMetrics Healthcare Rx Drug Diversion Analytics software offers the most effective [...]
This post was originally published on this site HelioMetrics Comment: The items relating to drug diversion have been made bold. Original Story below: The Washington State Department of Health recently released a set of lists that noted at least 25 health care professionals from around the state who were disciplined in September for various infractions. [...]
As Visante consultants engage with hospital and health system pharmacy leaders across the country, the topic of drug diversion inevitably comes into the conversation. Unless a significant diversion event has occurred at that healthcare organization, the reaction from many pharmacy managers and leaders often can be summarized as one or more of the following:“Our systems [...]
October 2016 By Greg Burger and Maureen BurgerLately, it seems the headlines are full of natural disasters – hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and earthquakes. When an earthquake happens near an ocean or large body of water, do we wait for the actual sighting of a tsunami to sound the alarms? No, there are sensors and warning systems [...]
This is a nice article/paper on Drug Diversion in hospitals. It also made reference to our partners at Visante. The prescription drug addiction crisis is impacting virtually every community and hospital in the United States. And it's hitting hospital workers directly, with on average of one in ten hospital employees abusing prescription drugs. In this [...]
Visante announces alliance with HelioMetrics® to help hospitals and health systems curb rates of opioid drug diversion Healthcare consulting group and technology firm combine specialized solutions to identify and prevent diversion MINNEAPOLIS – September 12, 2016 – Visante, Inc. announces an alliance with HelioMetrics, a drug diversion software analytics solution, to provide enhanced services [...]
by Gregory Burger Opioid misuse has again made headlines, this time in regard to the death of pop music sensation Prince from what was determined to be an accidental overdose of self-administered fentanyl. As you read the headlines, whether it is about a Prince or “a pauper” overdosing, consider the possibility that some of that [...]
Just today, I read about Shore Medical Center in Somers Point, NJ that had a drug diversion issue with a former pharmacist. According to the article (read full article here), “A former pharmacist at the hospital allegedly tampered with the drugs by replacing morphine with saline solution in vials that were administered to patients.” It [...]