AIT Laboratories Launches New Tools for Prescription Compliance Monitoring

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Chronic pain affects an estimated
116 million adults in the U.S.–more than the number affected by heart disease,
diabetes, and cancer combined, according to a recent report by the Institute of
Medicine. At the same time, prescriptions for opioids have increased over the
last ten years by 48%, contributing to the nation’s growing battle with
prescription drug abuse, according to a report by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration.

As a result, healthcare practitioners treating patients with chronic pain are in
need of services to help manage the care of their patients while making sure
that patients are compliant with their prescribed medications.

AIT Laboratories is launching AIT Pathways, a new suite of services for
prescription compliance monitoring that provides data and information to
healthcare practitioners who are trying to find a balance between safety,
efficacy, and risk in order to meet their patients’ needs.

“It isn’t enough anymore to just do a urine or a blood test on a patient being
prescribed opioids for the management of chronic pain. It is increasingly
important to assist the healthcare practitioner in understanding his/her entire
patient population and how to better manage the compliance of their patients
while they continue to treat patients with legitimate chronic pain,” said AIT
Manager of Scientific Education Josh Gunn, Ph.D.

AIT is now offering healthcare practitioners the following:

Urine Baselines:

— A urine baseline study offers a comprehensive look at a healthcare
practitioner’s practice with the ability to benchmark the office’s
compliance on a state and national level. Based on nearly 200,000 urine
samples tested by AIT in 2010, the company is able to show a
state-by-state comparison of non-compliance. To view the percentages of
non-compliance by state, visit

http://www.aitlabs.com/urine-baseline-studies.aspx.

— AIT offers a categorized report detailing each patient’s frequency and
history of compliance testing in the office.
— Healthcare practitioners can also receive a quick reference with details
on the patient’s prescribed medications as well as any non-prescribed
medication or illicit drug found in the patient’s system.
GuideMed:

— One of the most important steps on the path to addressing patient
compliance with prescribed therapies is determining the most appropriate
testing protocols for a healthcare practitioner’s unique patient
population.
— GuideMed assists healthcare practitioners in establishing compliance
monitoring goals for their practice, which may include utilizing a state
prescription monitoring database, utilizing urine and blood drug testing
to identify what is in a patient’s system and what is not, and
establishing in-office protocols.
Patient Adherence Tool:

— The Patient Adherence Tool (PAT) takes the guesswork out of whom to
test.
— The PAT is a customizable scheduling tool for all compliance monitoring
programs.
— It allows healthcare practitioners to maintain compliance while adopting
clinical risk-management methods to reduce abuse and diversion of
controlled prescription medications.
“There is no one way to implement and perform compliance monitoring testing -
like any other healthcare service, this should be personalized for individual
patients. AIT’s focus on introducing tools such as these is a huge step towards
being able to maximize the benefits of compliance monitoring, not only for the
provider but for the patient, too,” added Gunn.

Additional information about AIT Pathways can be found at

http://www.aitlabs.com/AITPathways.aspx.

About AIT Laboratories:

AIT Laboratories, headquartered in Indianapolis, Ind., is a healthcare company
that specializes in compliance testing, forensic toxicology drug testing,
clinical laboratory testing, and pharmaceutical testing. AIT is recognized
nationwide for superior customer service and quality in testing. The
employee-owned company has been recognized by Inc. magazine as one of the top
5,000 fastest-growing, private companies in the nation for five consecutive
years. In 2009, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce named AIT as the “Small Business
of The Year.” Learn more about AIT Laboratories at www.AITLabs.com and AIT
Bioscience at www.AITBioscience.com. Follow us on Twitter and like us on
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Contact: Raquel Bahamonde
(317) 308-0064
rbahamonde@aitlabs.com

SOURCE AIT Laboratories