Products
Advanced Incident Management System (AIMS)
The Advanced Incident Management System (AIMS) is a computerised system for collecting, classifying, analysing, managing and learning about things that go wrong in health care. AIMS allows you to capture information from a wide variety of sources and then enables you to de-construct and classify incidents from near misses to sentinel events in a consistent way, so that subsequent, detailed analysis is possible.
Features include:
- Client defined incident data capture form
- Single point of entry for multiple data sources
- Unique HIT-ClassificationTM to reveal the how and why of incidents
- Comprehensive analysis including a range of reports
- Sophisticated security & administrative controls
- Workflow tool for management of corrective actions, notifications (sentinel events) and responses
- Risk register tool for integrated risk management
iSOFT Solutions (International) is responsible for the marketing, technical development and support of AIMS. The AIMS software enhances efficiency and quality by providing a single point of data entry to capture, classify, manage and analyse safety and quality information. Unlike other systems, AIMS provides detail on why and how problems occur, powerful knowledge in the development of interventions.
For more information about AIMS please visit the iSOFT Solutions (International) web site:
http://www.isofthealth.com/en/Solutions/Hospitals%20and%20Clinics/AIMS.aspx
Crisis management manual (Anaesthesia)
Following upon the original 1996 publication of the 1st Edition of APSF?s unique, data based collection of anaesthesia crisis management protocols based upon the first 2000 AIMS Anaesthesia incident reports, APSF is pleased to announce the release of the 2nd Edition of this Manual in November 2006.
This 2nd Edition is based upon the first 4000 AIMS Anaesthesia voluntary and anonymous incident reports submitted to APSF from practising anaesthetists in Australia and New Zealand. It contains stepwise protocols for the clinical management of 28 of the most commonly encountered acute clinical situations in anaesthesia practice (including paediatric anaesthesia). Special Appendices deal with adrenaline (and some other) critical dosage calculations and preparations.
The protocols have been internally validated against those incident reports relating to each respective crisis where the management and/or outcome were identified as sub-optimal. Rapid access to each protocol is facilitated by attachable adhesive finger tabs. A web-based version of the protocols can be found here.
A pdf version of the protocols can be found here.
Requests for copies of this 2nd Edition, at a cost of Aus$20.00 for Australia and New Zealand (+ GST within Australia only) and $27 plus postage for overseas orders only, are available by phone, fax, email or mail, via the following contacts:
Australian Patient Safety Foundation
Playford Building
University of South Australia
Adelaide SA 5000
Phone 61 (0)8 8302 2447
Fax: 61 (0)8 8302 2265
Email: admin@apsf.net.au
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