North Shore-LIJ Health System selects SIS Anesthesia

North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System has extended its enterprise agreement with Surgical Information Systems (SIS) by selecting SIS Anesthesia as its anesthesia documentation solution.

The implementation will start at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., and will continue at the other North Shore-LIJ Health Systems hospitals.

SIS Anesthesia delivers anesthesia documentation as well as anesthesia business intelligence, enabling hospital surgery and anesthesia documentation to reside on a single database and streamlining and simplifying documentation, according to the Alpharetta, Ga.-based  provider of software platforms for the perioperative process.

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