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ADIoS - Abusable Drugs Investigational Software
The ADIoS software concentrates on drugs that have the potential to be abused, stolen or diverted, including such medicines as morphine, diazepam, dihydrocodeine, codeine and erectile-dysfunction drugs.
The program establishes normal usage within each issue point in a hospital or healthcare site, and then raises an alert when there is any departure from the norm.
Sometimes there’s a valid explanation. Sometimes it will lead to an investigation.
In the post-Shipman world, the ADIoS program is designed to support an NHS organisation’s Accountable Officer in discharging their responsibilities for monitoring and tracking the use of drugs controlled under the Medicines Act 1968 and other drugs with abuse potential.
Acute hospital and mental health Trusts across the south and west of England were among the first to start using ADIoS, and it is being adopted elsewhere all the time.
Case study
ADIoS reviewed a major acute hospital’s data and returned a warning about drug use on a busy intensive treatment unit. Usage of medicines is of course high in this clinical area but ADIoS identified a significant use of codeine tablets in the unit.
That might look normal on a different ward, but in intensive care it’s unusual for drugs to be given by mouth in any quantity.
An investigation then uncovered diversion of codeine.
ADIoS Primary
Abusable Drugs Investigational Software for primary care organisations
Like the ADIoS software, ADIoS Primary concentrates on drugs that have the potential to be abused, stolen or diverted, including such medicines as morphine, methadone, codeine, erectile-dysfunction drugs and diazepam.
The program establishes normal prescribing within a primary care setting, whether that’s in a GP practice, in a group such as practice-based commissioning consortia, at community hospital level, or across the whole primary care trust.
It allows easy comparisons of prescribing and dispensing patterns, and raises an alert when there is any departure from the norm.
In the post-Shipman world, the ADIoS program is designed to support a primary care trust’s Accountable Officer in discharging their responsibilities for monitoring and tracking the use of controlled and other drugs with abuse potential.