Drug Diversion - find out about an effective, secure drugs diversion prevention cabinet

This video looks at current issues and best practice in the fight against drugs diversion in US hospitals and explores how automated narcotics cabinets can support drugs-diversion prevention programs.
Drugs diversion costs the US healthcare industry over $70 billion per year.
- Up to 10% of registered nurses may be dependent on drugs or alcohol.
- Approximately 15% of healthcare workers will struggle with drug dependence.
- Over 10m people misuse opioids - there are 50,000+ deaths per year in the US
- 10% of hospital may not meet medication security standards required to prevent diversion.
The Joint Commission stated that successful diversion prevention requires organizations to establish a Controlled Substance Diversion Prevention Program (CSDPP). They encourage the use of automated dispensing cabinets.
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) have produced guidelance for hospitals to tackle drugs diversion, 'Essential Components of a Substances Diversion Prevention Program'.
The IDENTI Narcotics Cabinet provides hospitals and ASCs with a secure medication management solution that has been designed for use in hospitals and surgical centers by clinicians. It has a range of anti-drugs diversion features that give it the functional capability to play an effective role in any drugs diversion prevention strategy.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Tackling Drugs Diversion in Hospitals
00:05 Drugs Diversion is reality in US Hospitals
00:10 Statisics on Drugs Diversion in US
00:15 US Opioid crisis
00:20 What is drugs diversion in hospitals?
00:25 Methods of diverting drugs in hospitals
00:30 Drugs diversion is an organizational issue
00:35 Drugs diversion - risks to patients
00:40 ASHP Components of Controlled Substances Diversion Prevention Program
00:45 Automated dispensing cabinets in the fight against drugs diversion
00:50 Checklist for choosing an automated dispensing cabinet
01:10 Decentralized dispensing
01:15 IDENTI Secured Narcotics Cabinet
01:20 IDENTI Secured Narcotics Cabinet Anti Drugs Diversion Features
01:35 IDENTI Secured Narcotics Cabinet System Reports
01:40 IDENTI Secured Narcotics Cabinet supports ASPH guidelines
IDENTI’s automated dispensing cabinet includes the following drug diversion features:
- Face recognition or biometric log-in, eliminating the risk of user IDs and passwords being shared or observed.
- All activity is fully tracked against the dispensing clinician or pharmacist, as well as at both the patient and drug level.
- Drug tracking is synched to the EHR so no manual reconciliation is required between systems.
- Secure single cell release to limit user access to only those drugs requested and recorded on the system.
- Access to single unit medication doses, negating the need to over-dispense and reducing the need for returns and wastage.
- IDENTI assures that drug returns are to a single cell and make the user completely accountable for both the physical return of the drug and the electronic recording of the return.
- Digital logging of all wastage
- Reporting enables the proactive monitoring and review of all activity that may highlight suspicious activity which could indicate drugs diversion.
The IDENTI Secure Narcotics Cabinet has built-in anti-drugs diversion features.
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See also:
Video of Narcotics Cabinet - Clinical use - • Identi' Narcotics Disp...
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Video of Narcotics Cabinet - Pharmacist use - / @identimedical