Preparing for drug diversion software: Enhancing technologies and diversion prevention program growth.

The article describes several steps that the healthcare system needs to complete to prepare for the use of drug diversion software to help monitor controlled substances. The steps can be divided into four phases, which are evaluation of system capabilities, data streams and limitations and ensuring capture of investigation workflows and documentation, software maintenance and diversion prevention program growth, leveraging the software to create new workflows and initiating a refinement stage.