P R O J E C T R E P O R T
A RECONF I GURED AND LOCAL I S ED A I MS SOLUT I ON FOR SOUTH AUS TRAL I AN ANAE S THET I S T S
TODD HAEBICH ALLSCRIPTS
Allscripts is a global healthcare leader with significant presence and reach in Australia. When the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) in South Australia went to market for an AIMS solution, it selected the Allscripts iPro Anaesthesia AIMS because it is cloud-based, mobile, EMR- agnostic, highly configurable and easy for anaesthetists to use across the organisation’s more than 40 technical suites. iProcedures has been consistently ranked the top Anaesthesia vendor in the world (2019 Best in KLAS: Software and Services report.)
largely ready to use out of the box. Team members at RAH were also pleased with the functionality of iPro Anaesthesia, which has more configurability than similar solutions they had considered. Allscripts was appointed by SA Health to deliver its AIMS at the RAH in 2017 and the initial implementation, the iPro IntraOp module, was completed that year. In 2018, the RAH went live with the iPro PACU (Post-Anaesthesia Care Unit) module and in October 2020, the iPro PAT (pre-Admission testing) module implementation was completed.
intuitiveness of the system, some anaesthetists became proficient in the IntraOp stage of the system in less than a day. RAH AIMS Project Manager, Paul Dawkins, said that feedback from users has been overwhelmingly positive. “When you get anaesthetists going out of their way to visit you to thank you for AIMS, you know it is doing a good job.”
what makes your submission unique?
This is the first multi-platform, cloud-ready solution, designed and perfected by Australian anaesthetists and can be very easily applied to the New Zealand market where contemporary AIMS solutions are also in their infancy. It is a system that can be implemented quickly and with minimal training time required, providing access to an award- winning, highly configurable solution.
conclusion
use of technology and/or information
Anaesthetists are pleased with the new solution. Since moving to iPro Anaesthesia, RAH has established a more complete anaesthesia record and improved documentation, operating room efficiency and the ability to audit outcomes to improve
RAH’s iPro Anaesthesia AIMS now provides a complete and continuous patient record anywhere anaesthesia care is provided in the 800-bed flagship hospital in South Australia. The iPro Anaesthesia solution enables improved documentation, operating room efficiency, patient safety and medication management.
patient safety and medication management. Thanks to the
implementation/processes
The Allscripts team partnered with the RAH staff to configure iPro Anaesthesia to meet their specific needs and were pleased with the implementation process, finding the initial implementation straightforward. The product was
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