Anesthesia Business Consultants announces the successful completion of the Service Organization Controls (SOC) Report, Level 1. The independent SOC 1 Report was conducted by Plante & Moran, PLLC, a public accounting and consulting firm who evaluated and tested the company’s internal operational controls and processes. The SOC 1 Report is an enhancement to the prior standard for reporting on controls at a Service Organization, the SAS70. ABC’s successful completion of the SOC 1 Report demonstrates its commitment to remain up-to-date with new service organization reporting standards, the ISAE 3402, allowing ABC to compete on all levels with complete confidence. Completing a comprehensive SOC 1 Report requires substantial financial and time investments, but Anesthesia Business Consultants considered the review a mandatory aspect of its continuing commitment to process improvement.  Our dedication to enhancing security methods and internal controls has allowed us to consistently offer our clients an unprecedented level of quality and...

The Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI) was founded in 2009 to promote patient safety and quality management efforts across the specialty. The primary mission of the AQI is development of the National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry (NACOR), a repository for anesthesia case-specific data from across the country. NACOR is populated by transmission of electronic information from participating anesthesia practices and hospitals, including administrative (billing) data, Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS) data, elements from the hospital’s electronic healthcare records, and purpose- gathered patient outcome information. The AQI began recruiting practices a year ago, and began accepting case data fromJanuary 1, 2010. To date, the AQI has contracts with more than 40 anesthesia practices (including several ABC clients) and is working with more than a dozen anesthesia software vendors to format, transmit and translate their data into NACOR. Although few AQI sites have all of the desired data in electronic form today, all are...