Opioid safety program components

What IntellaRx actually consists of

IntellaRx consists of sixteen components in five groups: getting the medication to the person, knowing who receives it, understanding the clinical picture, assessing risk honestly, and watching the drug supply rather than the patient.

Each component exists to solve a specific failure named in the argument. Every one is described here in public, including what it is not.

A standing rule for this whole program, stated once and applied on every page below: these capabilities exist to prevent diversion, identity theft, misidentification and preventable overdose, and to give clinicians and agencies the clinical context that count-based analysis lacks. They do not exist to police people who are in pain. Where a capability could be turned to that use, the page says so.

Getting the medication to the person

Knowing who is receiving it

  • Biometric cross-validation — palm-vein or 3D facial confirmation at the point of transfer.
  • DNALock — a buccal-swab identity anchor for the specimen chain.
  • Custodial toxicology — chain-of-custody collection so a result can never be attributed to the wrong person.

Understanding the clinical picture

  • ProviderSynch — a pull API that returns a health-history summary when a prescription is transmitted.
  • EMR and LIS integration — diagnosis coding, laboratory results, chronic care management and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) in one view.
  • Metabolic determination — identifying pharmacokinetic outliers instead of marginalizing them.
  • MedimetRx psychometrics — validated behavioral health screening, scored against normative data and against the person’s own history.
  • Remote patient monitoring — consented between-visit signal, with early identification of depression and suicidality.

Assessing risk honestly

Watching the supply, not the patient

What IntellaRx is not

  • Not a pharmacy, and not a prescriber. IntellaRx does not prescribe, dispense, diagnose or treat.
  • Not a law-enforcement product. Nothing here is designed to build cases against patients.
  • Not a replacement for a state prescription drug monitoring program. It is complementary, and the evidence on PDMPs is on this site including its limits.
  • Not a source of legal advice. IntellaRx does not tell any agency what its own regulatory obligations are. Those are questions for that agency and its counsel.

Frequently asked questions

What are some ways to prevent the opioid crisis?

IntellaRx works on five fronts: getting the medication to the person, knowing who receives it, understanding the clinical picture, assessing risk honestly, and watching the drug supply rather than the patient. Each one targets diversion, identity theft, misidentification or preventable overdose, and gives clinicians and agencies the clinical context that count-based analysis lacks. None of it exists to police people who are in pain.

What are examples of prevention programs?

Examples from this program include delivery partnerships that close therapy gaps and remove the informal courier, naloxone and a lockable place for controlled medication in the home, palm-vein or 3D facial confirmation at the point of transfer, validated behavioral health screening, and an integrated real-time overdose registry that gives an agency a current picture of overdose events across its jurisdiction. Nothing here is designed to build cases against patients.

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