Anesthesia Business Consultants Teams with Survey Vitals to Provide Valuable Feedback to Anesthesiologists

JACKSON, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Anesthesia Business Consultants (ABC) announces today that it has formed a partnership with Survey Vitals, the premier provider of patient satisfaction questionnaires to the anesthesia industry. ABC has long recognized that without a proper assessment of the status quo, it is impossible to determine proper priorities and goals. Integrated as part of ABC’s powerful OneSourceAnesthesia program, Survey Vitals will aid the clients of ABC by providing a level of feedback they’ve never experienced before. The end result is a new level of awareness, increased performance and elevated patient satisfaction.

“Without measurement it is unlikely that we will continue to improve.”

Tony Mira, President and CEO of ABC states, “By adding Survey Vitals into our OneSourceAnesthesia platform, we enable our clients to make better decisions by proving effective monitoring of patient satisfaction levels, which is essential to decision making. The ability to view patient data and review patient comments leads to a fuller view of the process. Our clients can improve their anesthesia program with an effective patient monitoring system.”

Survey Vitals provides physician practices and hospitals with immediate, understandable, and actionable constituent feedback through a proprietary, electronic survey process. Easy to administer surveys with low bias and immediate reporting provide the data required for continuous improvement and increased patient, employee, and physician satisfaction. Survey Vitals offers the following anesthesia-centric programs: Patient Satisfaction, Surgeon Satisfaction, Anesthesiologist Satisfaction, CRNA/AA Satisfaction, and Peer-to-Peer Satisfaction.

Bob Vosburgh, President of Survey Vitals, says, "We’re flattered by the opportunity to partner with ABC, a premier provider of services to the anesthesia community. This partnership will elevate quality to the anesthesia community by providing real time patient satisfaction and peer feedback, that will improve the entire patient experience."

ABC and Survey Vitals are not alone in their commitment to status assessment. Richard P. Dutton, MD, MBA, Executive Director of the Anesthesia Quality Institute, states, “Without measurement it is unlikely that we will continue to improve.” With ABC and Survey Vitals you can improve your patient satisfaction and your bottom line.

About Survey Vitals

9g Enterprises, parent company of Survey Vitals, was founded in 2002, as a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business with a focus on providing our tool set to help leaders get better. Using our proven survey method, workshops, coaching and keynotes our clients showed a strong desire for surveys at an affordable price. Survey Vitals was created to focus this effort and help our clients Get Better. Providing immediate feedback, Survey Vitals helps you focus your energy on the business. Visit Survey Vitals at www.surveyvitals.com.

About Anesthesia Business Consultants

ABC, established in 1979, is the nation’s largest billing and practice management company dedicated to the complex and intricate specialty of anesthesia and pain management. It is an Anesthesia Quality Institute Preferred Vendor. It has also successfully completed a Service Organization Controls (SOC) 1 Report, which is an independent third-party verification of a company’s internal operational controls and processes.

ABC is the developer of the premiere perioperative anesthesia platform, OneSourceAnesthesia which provides a fully-integrated mobile architecture that does not rely on any fixed hardware. OneSourceAnesthesia provides clients one-stop access to the premier developers of anesthesia services, including the following features: patient portal, electronic medical records, post-operative quality, call scheduling, patient satisfaction, and our newest tool that enables anesthesiologists to meet Stage 1 Meaningful Use requirements, F1RSTUse.

F1RSTUse is the first—and only—full-service EHR management platform built exclusively for anesthesiologists and pain management specialists to satisfy with ease Stage 1 of Meaningful Use as required to earn the Medicare or Medicaid EHR incentive payment. It is the only product that provides the full service oversight to ensure success: tracking the necessary data points, providing reports of successful measures and ensuring that you are meeting all of the CMS requirements. F1RSTUse is entirely web-based and requires no infrastructure support for the hospital, practice or provider, regardless if you chart on paper or an electronic anesthesia record. F1RSTUse combines EHR technology with a Personal Health Record (PHR) system that is available to patients and enables anesthesiologists to meet the follow-up required by some of the Meaningful Use measures. All management activities are handled by ABC.

ABC employs industry leaders, operates under proven efficient processes, and utilizes technological advances to easily adapt to the ever-changing regulatory environment. Visit ABC at: www.anesthesiallc.com.