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TECHNOLOGY, COMPUTING, AND SIMULATION

Anesthesia Information Management System Implementation: A Practical Guide

Stanley Muravchick, MD, PhD^*, James E. Caldwell, MB, ChB, Richard H. Epstein, MD, Maria Galati, MBA, Warren J. Levy, MD^*, Michael O'Reilly, MD^||, Jeffrey S. Plagenhoef, MD^¶, Mohamed Rehman, MD^#, David L. Reich, MD, and Michael M. Vigoda, MD, MBA^**

From the *Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, California; Department of Anesthesiology, Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Department of Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York; ||Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; ¶Department of Anesthesiology, Southeast Alabama Medical Center, Dothan, Alabama; #Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and **Department of Anesthesiology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.

Address correspondence to Dr. S. Muravchick, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Dulles Suite 680, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283. Address e-mail to muravchst{at}uphs.upenn.edu.

Anesthesia Information Management Systems (AIMS) display and archive perioperative physiological data and patient information. Although currently in limited use, the potential benefits of an AIMS with regard to enhancement of patient safety, clinical effectiveness and quality improvement, charge capture and professional fee billing, regulatory compliance, and anesthesia outcomes research are great. The processes and precautions appropriate for AIMS selection, installation, and implementation are complex, however, and have been learned at each site by trial and error. This collaborative effort summarizes essential considerations for successful AIMS implementation, including product evaluation, assessment of information technology needs, resource availability, leadership roles, and training.

Anesthesia & Analgesia® is published for the International Anesthesia Research Society® by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins with the assistance of Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press®. Copyright 2006 by the International Anesthesia Research Society. Online ISSN: 1526-7598   Print ISSN: 0003-2999