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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Below are articles of drug diversion we found in the news for the week May 24th to May 30th 2015. This list may not be inclusive of all drug diversion events in the news and each individual's story is only listed the first time we see it. If you know of others, please let us know. [...]
A traveling nurse’s drug crimes started in 2013, when she served 90 days in jail according to a recent article and is currently on probation for that. However things didn’t stop there, while on a temporary nursing job and only two days after she was given her swipe badge, she started stealing Fentanyl and Midazolam [...]
When you look at drug diversion, sometimes it can be hard to see everyone that is affected by it. Mayo Clinic even went to the point of calling drug diversion a “multiple-victim crime” in their article Diversion of Drugs Within Health Care Facilities, a Multiple-Victim Crime: Patterns of Diversion, Scope, Consequences, Detection, and Prevention. They [...]
My first thought was good for that patient. There is an article about a LPN in a nursing home that has been charged with stealing medication from the nursing home residents. What is so great about this story is how she got caught. While stealing medication from one resident, she started stealing from another. This [...]