AIMS Incident and Risk Management Software
Actionable Data for Quality Improvement

The AIMS incident management software is based on 20 years of research and has been in use since 1998 at more than 1000 facilities in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States. An interactive evidence-based management tool, AIMS provides the specific and detailed information needed to devise interventions and solutions to healthcare delivery problems.

Benefits:

• Provides actionable, data-driven intelligence about safety and quality problems and best practices.
• Empowers managers to make strategic improvements by providing an interactive evidence base.
• Illuminates problem areas to enable improvement focus and tracking of results over time.
• Adaptable to your unique incident and risk management practices
• Enables staff to report incidents via a web form, call centre or even on a paper form.
• Facilitates communication with insurers regarding potential claims.
• Captures and classifies incident information to help reduce the high rate of preventable medical errors.

Features:

• Capture of adverse event and near miss information across acute care, community care, disability care, mental health and residential aged care (nursing homes).
• Comprehensive and standardised classification that reveals the how and why of incidents, facilitates benchmarking and detailed analysis recognised by the World Health Organization and the US Institute of Medicine.
• Single point of entry for multiple data sources for efficiency and a complete picture (clinical incidents, occupational health and safety, complaints/feedback, coroner reports, risks)
• Workflow functionality to ensure that staff are informed of serious events or simply notified of tasks they are required to complete following an event.
• Business intelligence and decision support tools for a strategic approach to patient safety and quality improvement.
• Choice of client-defined data capture forms to match local business processes or standard data capture forms for a simple and standardised approach.
• Sophisticated security and administrative controls for reliable and effective system management.
• Web-based for rapid and low cost deployment across large and small organisations.
• Available as an on-demand service for reduced up-front investment and project risk.

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