10 Smart Reasons for Hospitals to Switch to an Anesthesia Information Management System
Paper-based anesthesia record-keeping is fraught with problems. Added to a clinician’s main responsibility—taking care of the patient—paper-based practices can be distracting, cumbersome, inaccurate—even dangerous. Fortunately, there’s a solution. By automatically capturing data from various devices, and through seamless interoperability with EMR systems, anesthesia information management systems (AIMS) provide a reliable, defensible, accurate and legible record […]
An AI Story about Anesthesia Information System (AIMS) – Fact or Fiction?
Like many, I have been exploring the capabilities of ChatGPT with wonder and amusement. Recently, I asked the AI to, “Create a fictitious story about an anesthesiologist who didn’t want to use an Anesthesia Information System, but learned the benefits it provided and is now an advocate.” With the understanding that ChatGPT learns from existing […]
ASCs Prepare for New CMS Guidelines: Three Ways Technology Can Help
One of the many benefits of attending conferences is having the ability to learn more about the changes and challenges our customers face. A hot topic in recent discussions surrounded the changes coming to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) guidelines and how to provide quality care in a smaller timeframe. In 2020, CMS […]
Managing Risks to Support Product Quality: A Deep Dive into Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Software
In our blog from February I wrote about how Picis continues to expand best practice to support the development and quality of our products. In this encore blog, I’d like to take a closer look at one of the steps and one of our most important risk management processes: the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis […]
The Importance of Self-Care for Caregivers
In the event that there is a drop in cabin pressure, an oxygen mask will drop from the overhead bin. If you are traveling with others, please put your own mask on first before the others. For those who travel on airlines, you hear that statement every time you fly. This simple statement enforces the […]
September is Sepsis Awareness Month
Did you know that September is Sepsis Awareness Month? The Sepsis Alliance defines sepsis as “the body’s overwhelming and life-threatening response to infection that can lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death.” For those of us that are not clinical, our immune systems are meant to spring into action to prevent infection when the […]