2011 Volume 31 Issue 2 Pages 210-220
The term ‘Anesthesia Information Management Systems’ (AIMS) has been popularized, replacing the conventional ‘Automated Anesthesia Record-keeper’ (AAR). Here, we discuss the Japanese trend of AIMS. In our survey sent to major AIMS vendors in Japan, AIMS were installed in 70% of university hospitals (10% in US, 2007). Anesthesia records, nurse records, billing, etc., can all be handled by AIMS. For the needs of operation room (OR) information management, AIMS is mostly combined with ORIMS in Japan, and functions as (OR+A) IMS = ORAIMS. The smart display of anesthetic pharmacokinetics simulation on AIMS is gaining popularity among Japanese anesthesia professionals. The Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists provides free software for perioperative information management (JSA PIMS). Using JSA PIMS as a core, we have developed an advanced extension (JSA/AE) of three times the database fields. JSA/AE is categorized as a state-of-the-art ORIMS.
