Who Owns The Surgical Data?

Time Out for Anesthesia

Anesthesia practices, obviously, need different data points to be able to successfully report compliance, safety, productivity, and all kinds of other meaningful measures. But do they need to enter all of that data by hand?
A good portion of that data already exists in the hospital's EMR, and the value of sharing the data is immense. Not only can an anesthesia group objectively evaluate and improve their performance, but individual providers can spend less time entering duplicate values on multiple sheets of paper.
BUT: The data would need to be shared.
This can get political and roadblocks can appear, seemingly, out of nowhere if the hospital or its IT team don't share a cooperative spirit.
In this episode, Dr. Z shares some familiar questions that come up along these lines and how to navigate them successfully.