Time Out for Anesthesia

How does an anesthesia group create and maintain strong relationships with their clients - the facilities they serve? We welcome back Chrystale Cigainero of Metropolitan Anesthesia Consultants to help us explore.

Chrystale Cigainero of Metropolitan Anesthesia Consultants joins us this week to discuss some of the greatest challenges in managing today's anesthesia practice. Chrystale and the leadership of Metro face new obstacles in a post-covid world as professionals in the workplace, anesthesia providers included, re-evaluate their work-life balance. Tune in to see how they are addressing these and more challenges in the ever-changing healthcare landscape.

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Metropolitan Anesthesia Consultants: https://www.metroanesthesia.com/
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When shopping software, we've been trained to research the Return On Investment (ROI). There is, however, another dimension that ought to be considered along with ROI: Time To Value (TTV). Daniel Dura of Graphium Health -- always an incredibly valuable guest -- helps us not only explore the concept of Time To Value but also apply it to anesthesia software. Enjoy!

Meet Justin Harvey, CFP,  who is the only Certified Financial Planner that we've come across to date who focuses solely on anesthesia providers and their needs. He is a wealth of knowledge for a community that, we agree, is typically underserved.

Justin is further committed to that community through his work on his own podcast, APM Success, where he and his guests discuss financial topics that are vital to anesthesia providers. We highly recommend a listen here: www.APMSuccess.com

Here are some other helpful links to connect you with Justin's work:
The APM Wealth Financial Advisory website: www.apm-wealth.com

APM Success Podcast Must-Hear Episodes:

• What Surprise Billing Legislation Means For Anesthesiologists:
  www.apmsuccess.com/126
  
  
• A Washington State Case Study On The Future Of Anesthesia Employment:
  www.apmsuccess.com/115
  
  
• Understanding RVU Compensation:
  www.apmsuccess.com/109

Anesthesia Guidebook is one of the greatest free resources around to help anesthesia providers of all experience levels master their craft. We have its founder, Jon Lowrance, with us on the show this week. You will immediately like him—not only for his great personality, but for his motivation to help improve the life of an anesthesia provider in any way he can.

You can check out and subscribe to the Anesthesia Guidebook podcast here: 
https://anesthesiaguidebook.com/

We also reference a couple of episodes to get you started:

#12 - Ten Things Every Anesthesia Provider Should Know
https://anesthesiaguidebook.com/episode12/ 

#27 - Total Knee Arthroplasty in the COVID-19 era with Adam Rana, MD & Ryan Mountjoy, MD
https://anesthesiaguidebook.com/episode27/ 

Enjoy!

Daniel Dura, CEO of Graphium Health visits the show this week to discuss anesthesia, technology, and the fascinating career path that led him here -- and what has happened ever since. You'll hear familiar names like Macromedia, Fujitsu, Adobe, and more all painting a story of how Graphium & it's suite of Anesthesia software tools were born. Enjoy!

What do anesthesia, technology, and...peacocks have in common? We're convinced that the only way to know is to interview Tom Wilson, VP of sales for Graphium Health - an anesthesia solutions company.

Join Tom and us as we discuss his career, the changes he's seen in the healthcare and anesthesia landscapes over the last 9 years. And yes. We'll talk about peacocks.

We welcome Nathan Caldwell, Amazon best-selling author of Empowering Kindness, back to the show to discuss company culture - this time addressing one specific, more difficult subject when it comes to kindness.

What does discipline or correction look like inside of a company that has dedicated itself to kindness? Mistakes will still be made--so how do we handle them while, at the same time, promoting a positive work environment?

Nathan responds masterfully -- enjoy!
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Purchase Empowering Kindness by Nathan Caldwell at Amazon.com.

We were able to sit down with Nathan Caldwell, Amazon Bestselling author of Empowering Kindness: Why unlocking power in others will be your greatest success. While it's a bit of a departure from our typical Anesthesia-centric content, Graphium Health (who powers this show) is passionate about positive company culture, and Nathan's thoughts and words are solid gold.

Empowering Kindness has tools that every thought leader, executive, and human being can employ to improve the world around them.  Enjoy!

You can check out the book here: https://amzn.to/3tvc0yy

Let's face it: Healthcare has a hard time with Technology. But in today's advanced era, how is the anesthesia patient experience affected by the right kind of technology implementation? We welcome back Courtney Franco of Imagine Software to discuss!

More About Courtney:
Courtney Franco, Vice President of Sales
Courtney joined Technology Partners, LLC in 2013 and is the Vice President of Sales leading the direct sales team across the country. Courtney came to ImagineSoftware with 15 years of sales experience after working in pathology billing and selling self-funded health and welfare plans for third party administrators. She successfully reconciled over $2M in errors while in pathology, and currently works with our partners and vendors to strategically grow relationships and provide ongoing guidance and education.
 
Courtney graduated from Belmont Abbey College with a degree in psychology and currently Co-Chairs the membership committee for EDPMA.

You can check out Imagine Software at https://www.imagineteam.com/