Ten Questions to Ask: Finding an Anesthesia Partner
Finding the right outpatient anesthesia partner can be tricky. Here are five quantitative and 5 qualitative metrics to consider.
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Is Your Practice Meeting PMPM Quality Incentives?
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...
Healthcare AI: Patient Experience And The GPT Evolution
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?
Careers in Anesthesia are Changing, with Opportunities Outside Hospitals
Careers in anesthesia treating non-hospital patients is at the cutting edge of technique and skill while offering greater work-life balance.
How office-based procedures can impact nursing burnout
With a nursing burnout crisis not looming, but here, what role can office-based procedures play in reducing stress?
Dr. Heike Knorpp on the importance of trust
Mobile Anesthesiologists' Dr. Heike Knorpp shares her insights on trust in the physician-patient relationship and how office-based procedures can impact that.
Dr. Meghan Valach on physician burnout and finding freedom
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...
How expanding sites of service can benefit everyone
Expanding - not disrupting - sites of service broadens access while bringing down overall costs.
Dr. BobbieJean Sweitzer on the advances of ambulatory anesthesiology
Dr. BobbieJean Sweitzer, past president of the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesiology (SAMBA), shares her insights on where the field is going
The intersection of patient safety and office-based procedures
Dr. David Mayer shares insights into how critical protocols and safeguards can ensure office-based procedures and patient safety align.
How office-based procedures embody the spirit of the quadruple aim
Moving procedures into the office setting checks all the boxes when it comes to the quadruple aim.
AMS’ Tina Mentz on the importance of cost transparency
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.