Anesthesia Practice Management Blogs

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Importance of Clinical Documentation in Anesthesia Care

By Kelly Mumford, RN, BSN, MBA

Clinical documentation in anesthesia care is an essential element of safe, high-quality medical care. Anesthesia providers must value the importance of accurate and thorough documentation and diligently record it. Whether captured digitally or traditionally, documentation is a significant part of an anesthesiologist’s or CRNA’s role and should be taken seriously. Improving clinical documentation in anesthesia…

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Understanding Key Anesthesia Metrics

By Kelly Mumford, RN, BSN, MBA

At CCI Anesthesia, we know how valuable data is to facility administrators. We meticulously track anesthesia Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to share with our clients and to support our own efforts in delivering the best, most efficient anesthesia care possible. We maintain a list of worthwhile anesthesia KPIs to track and will feature some of…

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Benefits of Implementing an Anesthesia Information Management System

By CCI Anesthesia

Automating anesthesia records seems like an easy decision in a world where hospitals and surgical facilities have been fully transitioned to paperless patient and medical records for years. Paper charting is still quite common among anesthesia departments across the world and implementing an anesthesia information management system (AIMS) requires tremendous expertise. For years, we have…

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Data and its Influence on Perioperative Care

By Kelly Mumford, RN, BSN, MBA

Healthcare systems have long collected data on patients undergoing surgery. However, pre-digitization, there was no method for compiling or storing a set of universal data. The internet, electronic medical records (EMRs) and quantitative clinical research have each played an important role in improving the delivery of healthcare. In the modern age of surgery and anesthesia…

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