Andrew Lovewell

You know, if you've got all those things done, yeah, let's look at some AI.

You know, what can we use?

Is there an AI coding software?

Yeah.

Is there an AI pre-cert software we could use?

We don't want to also over-adopt point solutions.

So making sure you partner with somebody who's a true partner, not a vendor, is really the use case you have to explore.

Anybody can add point solutions, but you're going to end up with point solution fatigue by just adding and adding and adding to it.

So

establishing what it is we're trying to solve for and who can solve for the most problems at one time is going to be really the key to success there.

I would say one of the big places that ASCs can partner is really in their internal partners they already have.

If you're with a physician's group, how can you get more aligned with that physician's group?

Are there things you can do there that demonstrate economies of scale, whether that's

Doing accounting or purchasing together, things like that.

If you're partnering with a management company, what other offerings do they have that could come into your ASC to establish growth, whether that's physician recruitment funding or some other mechanism like that?

I would also say if you're partnering with a hospital system, there kind of is, I would say, a competitive system.

that happens there where the hospitals want the cases, you want the cases, you know, just establishing the ground rules and how we all work together to get cases is ideal.

You know, I think that that's a very, very key thing when you're partnering in a JV like that.

Outside of that, partnering with vendors slash partners is really important because there's a lot of cool, new, innovative technologies that we talked about that are out there that can help

But, you know, you don't want to over partner because then you're just going to be chasing contract management and other things like that.