Free Diversion Prevention Toolkit for IHFDA Attendees

The free assessments, case data, and playbooks DivertGuard maintains for diversion prevention coordinators, pharmacy compliance leaders, and nursing and security partners — the same audience IHFDA serves.

Built by a 3-time IHFDA Annual Conference presenter — Alex Rodriguez, MHIIM, CPhT, who has presented at IHFDA in 2022, 2024, and 2025, and is also ASHP faculty and an HCCA speaker.

Full presentation list and credentials in the About the author section below, or the full author page.

Start here: free tools, no signup

Everything below is free and immediately usable — no account, no email gate. Pick the one that matches what you're working on this week.

Program Self-Assessment Checklist

8-section, 63-item weighted assessment for hospital and health-system programs, with a real-time composite score.

Risk Assessment by Unit

Unit-by-unit risk profiles — ED, ICU, OR, oncology, med-surg — to prioritize where monitoring goes first.

Investigation Playbook

Structured steps for interviews, evidence handling, DEA 106 filing, and case documentation.

Analytics Dashboard Blueprint

KPI definitions and sample SQL to build surveillance reporting against your own ADC and EHR exports.

Monitoring Software Buyer's Guide

What ADC analytics, EHR surveillance, and reconciliation tools actually do, and how to evaluate a vendor.

Case Registry

Documented federal and state diversion cases, searchable by drug, setting, and outcome.

Diversion Statistics

Which drugs, which settings, how cases resolve — drawn from the public case registry.

15 Red Flags of Diversion

Indicators worth a confidential review — and the investigation steps to take next.

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The free tool for problems like these

These are the kinds of problems that come up every year at IHFDA — and in every diversion program. Here's the free DivertGuard resource that addresses each one.

ProblemFree DivertGuard resource
Investigations, and the human side of an addiction-driven diversion case How long a DEA investigation takes
Anesthesia and OR diversion detection Anesthesia & OR diversion prevention
Workflow vulnerabilities across roles and care settings Hospital checklist & risk assessment by unit
Running a defensible diversion investigation end to end Investigation playbook
Diversion that doesn't show up as missing drugs 15 red flags of drug diversion & signs of medication diversion
Centralizing monitoring to reduce unexplained variances Analytics dashboard blueprint
Building the case for a surveillance or technology investment Drug diversion monitoring software buyer's guide
Designing or defending a camera-based surveillance plan Camera setup guide

About IHFDA's Annual Conference

IHFDA's 11th Annual Conference was held September 28–29, 2026, at the Hilton Charlotte University Place in Charlotte, NC, in person and virtually, hosted by the International Health Facility Diversion Association. Details and future conference dates: ihfda.org . See also our Events & Conferences page for other upcoming diversion-prevention events.

About the author

DivertGuard is built and maintained by Alex Rodriguez, MHIIM, CPhT (also known as Jesus Rodriguez) — a healthcare compliance analytics professional with more than a decade in pharmacy practice and direct responsibility for a health-system controlled substance diversion prevention program.

IHFDA Annual Conference presentations

  • 2025 — The Rounding Revolution: A High-Tech Approach to Diversion Prevention (with Emily Spiceland, PharmD)
  • 2024 — No Pill Left Behind: Strategies for Comprehensive Drug Accountability (with Eric Andrews)
  • 2022 — Ready for My Close Up! Implementing, Maintaining, and Expanding Drug Diversion Prevention Cameras (with Jeremy Quinn, Shawn Young, and John Bailey)

Other professional engagement

  • Faculty, ASHP Drug Diversion Certificate
  • Speaker, Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)
  • Published author, Pharmacy Purchasing & Products

Credentials

  • MHIIM — Master of Health Informatics and Information Management, University of Tennessee Health Science Center (2019–2021)
  • CPhT — Certified Pharmacy Technician, with 10+ years of pharmacy practice across retail, hospice, compounding, home-health, and hospital settings

The assessment items, weighting, and case registry behind this site come from that operational background — building and running a diversion prevention program, not from vendor marketing. Every tool here is free, requires no signup, and is based on published regulatory and professional standards (DEA, Joint Commission, ASHP, CDC).

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Last reviewed: September 2026 · Content is educational, not legal advice.

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