In 2017, Invistics, now Wolters Kluwer, collaborated with Piedmont Athens Hospital for a National Institutes of Health Research grant to detect drug diversion in healthcare.
The research focused on consolidating data from multiple computer systems at Piedmont Athens to apply analytics and machine learning to healthcare data to detect “risk” in transactions from Nursing, Anesthesia, Pharmacy, and more.
Technology supported more effective drug diversion detection and investigation
Users of the technology saw value in more effectively detecting potential diversion while more efficiently being able to investigate diversion cases and work with hospital departments to collaboratively change practice patterns. Advanced dashboards and alerting take the solution towards real-time detection.
