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New equipment in EASCs  can improve services.

Improve efficiencies and  economics with proper  use of technology in the  exam room.

Dear Colleague,
We invite you to join us for the Gastroenterology Practice and Endoscopic ASCs course scheduled for April 10-13, 2008 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

This course will provide the gastroenterologist and GI practice/endoscopic ambulatory surgery center (EASC) with information to allow success in our era of rising practice costs and diminishing reimbursement. Topics will be presented in lecture and workshop formats, with specific information being offered to help gastroenterologists prepare for change in today's evolving practice environment. Application has been made for nurse CEU credits.

Specific topics will include:

• developing the EASC
• improving the existing EASC
• the economics of running an EASC
• information management/EMR
• quality performance
• ownership models for the ASC
• legislative and regulatory issues
• practice efficiencies and added services
• topics in sedation, coding and reimbursement
• non-physician providers
• an alternative track for nurses
• strategic planning and marketing for the GI practice/ASC
• going off call
• managing new/disruptive technologies

Workshop sessions will allow in-depth discussion of many of these topics and allow course participants to address problems relevant to their practices and centers. Building on the success of 2006, we will include a separate ASC educational track for nurses and a special in-depth workshop on coding. A tour of the new Endoscopy Center will be provided for those interested. Industry-sponsored symposia will offer additional educational programs in several areas of gastrointestinal disease and practice.

Course Objectives:

Course attendees will receive information to enable them to do the following:

• Develop an endoscopic ambulatory surgery center (EASC) for the efficient and effective delivery of gastrointestinal endoscopy services
• Understand the importance of an EASC and alternative sites to the practice of gastrointestinal endoscopy
• Improve gastroenterology practice and surgery center efficiencies
• Understand legislative and regulatory issues important to gastroenterology practice and ambulatory surgery centers
• Address nursing issues vital to gastroenterology practice and ambulatory surgery centers
  Improve the existing EASC
• Evaluate different paradigms for delivery of sedation/analgesia in the EASC
• Apply appropriate financial management principles to GI practice and EASCs
• Update coding for GI services
• Appreciate and implement modern information technology for the GI practice
• Assimilate experiences from premier GI practices from around the country
• Learn marketing, negotiating, and quality assurance techniques for the GI practice

Come learn and enjoy!