Invistics leverages machine learning to track hospital drug theft

Healthcare company Invistics debuted its newest software March 21—a system that’s more than 90 percent effective in detecting missing drugs from a hospital’s supply.

“As many as 10 percent of healthcare workers divert from their workplace, and most of these instances of theft go unreported,” Tom Knight, CEO of Invistics, said in a press release. “We want to solve that problem in a scalable way, and machine learning is helping us detect drug diversion that would have not otherwise been detected.”

Invistics’ technology is the first DEA-compliant software to successfully flag drug diversion and is backed by the National Institutes of Health. The platform uses advanced AI and machine learning to detect patterns in healthcare worker behaviors that violate policy and lead to an increased risk of drug diversion.