Medical Informatics and Opportunity for Anesthesiologists.

This is the fifth year that we are organizing the anesthesia symposium/debate during the annual meeting of the Chinese Society of Anesthesiologists. The member of the symposium consists a team from China lead by Dr. Buwei Yu, the immediate past president of the Chinese Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA, http://www.csaol.cn) and a team from US lead Dr. Lee Fleisher, the current president of the Association of University of Anesthesiologists (AUA, http://www.auahq.org/). The first symposium was held in Shanghai with the focus on providing anesthesia in day surgical centers and out of operating room settings. The second symposium was held in Beijing with the focus on evidence based anesthesiology. The third symposium was held in Jinan with the focus on anesthesia simulation and education. Last year, the symposium was held in Chongqing with the focus on modes of safe anesthesia delivery in the US vs. China. With the rapid development of medical informatics and its significant impact on the future of anesthesiology, the leaders of this symposium believe that a joint symposium focusing on medical informatics and the opportunity for anesthesiologists is timely. Over the last decade, anesthesia related morbidity and mortality have decreased dramatically due in part to the advancement of anesthesiology, modern informatics, and monitoring technology.[1,2] Anesthesiology remains among the top leaders of patient safety and serves as a model for other specialties.[1,2] However, challenge remains to improve perioperative outcome which is one of the top priorities for anesthesiology. To achieve the goal to improve outcome, medical informatics is the backbone of this task despite that many obstacles remain to be overcome. There is no doubt that anesthesiologists are grasping this great opportunity and playing a leadership role in developing, implanting and researching medical informatics to improve patient care and outcome. Here are some of the major points that the team from the US side is going to present, discuss, and debate during the symposium with the focus on “Medical informatics and opportunity for Anesthesiologists” in the afternoon of September 20th, 2013in Tianjin.

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Renyu Liu, Meghan Brooks Lane-Fall, C. William Hanson, et al. (2013). "Medical Informatics and Opportunity for Anesthesiologists.". PubMed.