1. Implementation of the privacy rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) creates significant changes in how medical records and patient information are handled. Under HIPPA, patients' names may not be used on an “operating room (OR) board” if there is any chance that anyone not directly involved in their care could see them.
2. Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Basic EMR implementation has been problematic for practices (e.g., expense, obvious savings, acceptable software), but true electronic anesthesia information management systems have been even more difficult to implement.

Scope of Practice

1. Administrative Components of All Anesthesiology Practices
2. Practice Essentials
3. Evolving Practice Arrangements
4. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
5. Expansion Into Perioperative Medicine, Hospital Care, and Hyperbaric Medicine
6. Operating Room Management