Andrew Lovewell

You know, as an ASC, you've got to be ready for that by October.

You know, do you have all the technology in place?

Do you have the staff in place?

Is your block schedule optimized where you can kind of produce at that level?

So just getting all your ducks in a row, making sure you got the basics in place.

You know, even before we start exploring the AI side of things, like let's just get the basics right so we can deliver and, you know, get those cases that are going to move over.

So I would give that kind of nugget as like, you know, just check all the boxes, be prepared for, you know, the migration and continued migration of cases coming.

I think that's a great question.

You know, I would anticipate if it's an ASC that hasn't invested in technology yet, right?

So somebody who doesn't have an EHR, doesn't have a inventory management system or some type of nature there, I would strategically look at that as an opportunity for your next horizon of strategic planning, because that's going to give you more data and information to make decisions.

I think that it's going to provide you

with the tools necessary to recruit more surgeons and also optimize your ASC better.

I would also tell you one of the big drivers that we've used to help us from a patient-facing standpoint is using technology that automates a lot of our processes, whether that's reminding patients to stop taking a medication ahead of time, whether it's having people fill out their health history via a technological app so it integrates into our system,

EHR and our ASC, you know, just using the tech to take away some of the busy work that your staff have to do today is going to be huge because you're really going to want your staff to do the high value or high yield tasks, not the repetitive things that are going to kind of get in the way of making sure you have all that information in place.

So

leveraging the simple stuff out there.

There's tons of, you know, technology you can use.

A couple of EHR PMs is HST and SIS, both great products.

You know, one medical passport has a really nice interface and tool that you can use.

It's super slick.