Changing the Way We Operate

Careers in anesthesia treating non-hospital patients is at the cutting edge of technique and skill while offering greater work-life balance.

With a nursing burnout crisis not looming, but here, what role can office-based procedures play in reducing stress?

Mobile Anesthesiologists’ Dr. Heike Knorpp shares her insights on trust in the physician-patient relationship and how office-based procedures can impact that.

Alarms have long been sounding about the looming physician burnout crisis facing healthcare and the nation at-large. The pandemic only intensified feelings of depression, depersonalization, lack of professional satisfaction, and emotional exhaustion. The American Medical Association recent reported on findings of a Mayo Clinic study that found during the Omicron wave of the pandemic, a…

Expanding – not disrupting – sites of service broadens access while bringing down overall costs.

Dr. BobbieJean Sweitzer, past president of the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesiology (SAMBA), shares her insights on where the field is going

Dr. David Mayer shares insights into how critical protocols and safeguards can ensure office-based procedures and patient safety align.

Moving procedures into the office setting checks all the boxes when it comes to the quadruple aim.

Cost transparency benefits patients, providers, and payers, so why is the industry so averse to it? Tina Mentz share her thoughts on the importance of sunlight in healthcare spending.

Health systems need to differentiate from new players offering easier access and lower costs. Office-based procedures could be the key.

Office-based procedures have a proven track record of safety and myriad benefits for urologists, patients, and payers alike.

Office-based procedures are growing in popularity as a way for independent practices to grow. So what are the benefits and key considerations physicians must make to safely bring procedures into their own space?

Armed with a commonsense approach to lowering healthcare costs, anesthesiologist Dr. Marlon Michel is safely, conveniently, and comfortable helping dentists shift their sites-of-service.

More-and-more, medical procedures are being performed safely, conveniently, and affordably in physician’s offices and clinics.

Today’s post is part III of our ongoing series about moving procedures out of the hospital and into ambulatory surgery center and office-based environments. Today, we’re discussing changing patient demographics and market signals.

Today’s post is part II of our ongoing series about moving procedures out of the hospital and into ambulatory surgery center and office-based environments. We’re discussing the contributing factors to the site of service shift, and its benefits to patients and doctors alike. Last week, we covered advances in surgical procedures and anesthesia. This time, we’re addressing the rise of office healthcare technology.

Reason #1: ADVANCES IN ANESTHESIA AND SURGICAL PROCEDURES The modernization of anesthesia, particularly outsourced anesthesia, has played a clear role in the site of service transition to office-based procedures. The healthcare industry is undergoing a dramatic transformation. The past decade has seen a steady increase in surgical procedures moving away from hospital environments into surgery…

Finding the right outpatient anesthesia partner can be tricky. Here are five quantitative and 5 qualitative metrics to consider.

As the ambulatory space continues to grow, anesthesia partnerships need to go beyond the immediate patient experience and recovery process. In that same vein, they should always help surgeon partners increase patient compliance with colorectal cancer screenings and ease the burden of the overall referral process, thus increasing your revenue.  The right partner can even help…

AI has been used as pattern recognition technology to aid clinicians in diagnostics from pathology reports, x-rays, etc. In each case, it has been put to work as a substantial augmentation on human expertise. Will GPT engines impact healthcare, next?