Creating an anesthesia information management system is one of the challenges associated with converting paper records to electronic formats. They need to have an intuitive interface that easily fits in with anesthesiologists’ workflow, but also need to be easily integrated into an electronic medical record. Healthcare IT company Medical Information Records LLC tackled those challenges with its Anesthesia OS and has been rewarded as the winner of Dell’s Healthcare Pitch competition.
The system was developed by a couple of anesthesiologists — co-founders Dr Christopher Ray and Dr. George Armendariz.
In a presentation to Dell and Intel Capital, Ray, the CTO, said the company spent a lot of time on the interface. Although it had sought to collaborate with healthcare software vendors, Ray said the problem was that vendors weren’t responsive to anesthesiologists’ workflows and tended to put processes over people. Ray pointed out the more intuitive and simple the user interface is, the more likely anesthesiologists will be to document more information.
Among the company’s priorities in developing Anesthesia OS were data integration, suggestive therapy and predictive outcomes, building situational awareness and providing targeted clinical decision support. It also needed to be cost-effective and empower providers. The point of these systems is to aggregate information in one place from the lab, billing, imaging, communication, pharmacy and scheduling. By collecting the data automatically, it helps anesthesiologists create an accurate record. It can also be used to generate big data insights to improve outcomes.
Among the winner’s prize package is a Dell Venue Pro Set, the opportunity to pitch joining Dell as a business partner and to work with Dell on a proof-of-concept test to evaluate its healthcare solution.
