Home / Best Practices / DEA Drug Log Compliance Checklist
Yang
Co-Founder
- 06/28/2022
Track your containers from start to finish:
Track your usage clearly and holistically:
Keep an up-to-date accurate balance:
Validate any exceptional usage:
What does this mean? Read our blog for details
If you need help with resources or materials to help your team with logging compliance reach out to us at contact@vetsnap.com
- Manufacturing and invoice information, and unique identifying name
- Receive date, open date activities are all clearly tracked and signed off by staff
- Date, amount used and wasted, client details including address, patient details, requesting physician, clear explanation of reason
- Container(s) drawn from
- Any modifications to the record, including additional amounts used, all clearly signed by staff
- Ensure that your on-hand container balance is accurately reflected in your log balance (ideally daily), with errors corrected and documented
- Be sure to clearly record at the appropriate level of detail your biennial inventory count, and any inventory counts done in between
- Any adjustments to container balances must have 2 people sign off with one as a witness
- Any container level waste must have 2 people sign off with one as a witness
How does VetSnap make this easier for you?
Simple intuitive training that lets you get started with just a few hours of training and setup.
- Save time by auto-populating recurring information for drugs
- Tracking the container status from unopened, to opened, to finished is auto-generated as part of restocking and logging
- VetSnap integrates with your practice information management system, allowing us to auto-populate compliant details just by inputting an identifying field, e.g., patient number
- Creating and modifying a log requires a valid signature PIN code
- VetSnap automatically validates your logged quantities to your PIMS records to identify issues, making reconciliation a breeze
- Creating a compliant physical count record takes seconds to do
- VetSnap has safeguards in place to ensure that anything that may require a witness signature or other necessary information is filled appropriately, and if anything is missing, there are clear warnings