title: [Introduction of hospital information system and anesthesia information management system into the perianesthetic practice at Osaka City University Hospital].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Recently, the hospital information systems (HIS) and anesthesia information management systems (AIMS) have been rapidly improved and have been introduced into the clinical practice in Japan drastically; however, few reports have detailed their influences on clinical practice. We here report our experience.
  
  
  METHODS
  We introduced HIS (EGMAIN-EX, Fujitsu Co., Ltd.) in our preoperative evaluation clinic and in the postoperative care unit. AIMS (ORSYS, Philips Electronics Japan) was introduced almost only to the intraoperative management.
  
  
  RESULTS
  It became easy for us to acquire patient's information and to share it with the medical staffs in the other departments. However, we had to invest large human resources for the introduction and maintenance of the HIS and the AIMS.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Though AIMS is more useful in anesthetic management than HIS, it seems to be more suitable for coordination with the medical staffs in the other departments to use HIS for perioperative management than to use AIMS.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka 545-8586.
authors.forename: Motoko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.forename: Katsuaki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Chie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hagiwara
authors.forename: Kazutake
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ikenaga
authors.forename: Miwako
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoshioka
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Asada
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000639:trends; D006785:Hospitals, University; D019451:Information Management / Q000639:trends; D007564:Japan; D019990:Perioperative Care