Dr. Alaa Abd-Elsayed

Thank you for having me.

I'm a pain physician and anesthesiologist at University of Wisconsin, where I work in the inpatient setting and an ambulatory setting clinic to surgical centers and the care for patients both on the hospital grounds and ambulatory surgical centers and also at clinic setting.

It's a very good question.

And I think the expansion in ASCs, as you mentioned, is inevitable.

It's happening and it's happening fast.

And there are many reasons because it's owned by smaller groups, typically, so they have more control, more autonomy.

can control the finances, which always you want to think of the ins and outs, which is different than being in gigantic health care system, which you probably have less control over those finances.

So I think it's a growing model.

I think it's a good model.

And I think when you develop those models, you always look for efficiencies, which are good for patients as well.

Like, again, quick surgeries in and out.

You try not to keep them in the hospital, which is good not only financially, but also for the health and wellness of patients just to be home on the same day.

That's a very good question.

And as we speak here in the conference about the different AI platforms, AI will make things very smooth, very quick.

We'll...

help the shortage of staff that we are encountering nowadays at all grounds in the operating room and outside the operating room, which will allow for more efficiencies and not counting on the, I would say, filling the gaps in staff shortage.

So this integration is very helpful and I think will lead to more efficient healthcare system and ASC operations.

I would say it's hard to pick up only one, but the main one that we're all excited about is use AI, for example, for appeals, because that's a very tedious process, very lengthy and require a lot of labor work.

So AI in appeals has been very successful in reversing a lot of those appeals, which again leads to our patient be able to get the care they deserve, but using it in scribing, use it in coding.

I think these are very good steps that not only will make it efficient, but will make it maybe more accurate.