New Patent Granted Assists Hospitals With Greater Coverage to Support Drug Diversion Prevention
Protenus, provider of the leading healthcare compliance analytics platform, today announced a new grant of a U.S. patent that supports its ongoing efforts to deliver drug diversion surveillance technology that enables hospitals and health systems to be more efficient and proactively eliminate risk to their organization and patients.
The new grant of U.S. Patent No. 11,923,062 is titled “Methods and Systems for Analyzing Accessing of Drug Dispensing Systems.” With this patent, Protenus now holds six granted U.S. patents covering various techniques for detecting anomalous drug dispensing events. For example, the newly granted patent covers numerous techniques such as using pattern-based algorithms to identify hidden drug misappropriation events as part of an AI-driven approach.
“Our research estimates that one in 100 healthcare employees are diverting narcotics away from patient care,” states Nick Culbertson, CEO and co-founder of Protenus. He continues, “Our award-winning drug diversion surveillance solution has consistently demonstrated the ability to surface diversion concerns early without inundating staff with manual processes. This new patent reflects our novel approach to bolstering our customers’ diversion monitoring strategies.”
Protenus now holds more than a dozen granted U.S. patents covering various key aspects of patient privacy monitoring and drug diversion surveillance technologies, along with several other pending U.S. and foreign patent applications.
Any licensing inquiries or other questions about the Protenus patent portfolio should be directed to Amy Much, Protenus’ General Counsel, at amy.much@protenus.com.
