Arkive Corporation - Anesthesia Information Management Systems

Situation

Arkive manufactured Anesthesia Information Management Systems designed to record all of the anesthesia related activities that occur during surgery. The rapid pace of events in the OR makes it difficult to take accurate notes in a timely manner. Legal and medical problems are caused by this lack of accurate information.

In the user environment for these systems, the client needed to install networked systems throughout tightly scheduled operating rooms and hospital data centers. A range of audiences needed to be trained, and the whole system had to go live in a phased manner.

Implementation Plan

A 5-phase Implementation Plan was developed to cover all activities on the vendor and customer side over the 4-month implementation cycle. The plan included a series of checklists to verify that each action was completed by the assigned staff, and that the entire team was ready to move to the next set of activities.