ASC insights

As ambulatory surgery centers take on higher-acuity cases and more complex procedures, monitoring decisions are becoming long-term infrastructure decisions. Medtronic acute care and monitoring's expanded collaboration with Mindray North America extends a long-standing hospital relationship into ambulatory surgery, integrating advanced monitoring technologies onto a single platform.

Their approach? Integrate industry-leading Medtronic parameters directly into Mindray's patient monitoring platforms as they are installed, so ASCs can open and operate as though they were in the hospital. The platform is modular and plug and play, letting centers activate only the technologies that fit their case mix and add parameters over time as complexity grows.

Behind every seamless ASC operation is an invisible network of coordination. For Cardinal Health and Medtronic, that network runs on weekly supply chain meetings, monthly performance scorecards, and a shared commitment to making complexity disappear for ASC leaders.

Their approach? Strategic collaboration that addresses 70% of an ASC's formulary while maintaining elevated inventory levels and weekly touchpoints between teams—so problems get solved before ASCs even know they exist.

When Dr. Adam Thaler became Medical Director at Summit Health's ASC three years ago, he faced a reality every ASC anesthesiologist knows: managing complex airways without the safety net of a hospital's backup resources.

His solution? Making video laryngoscopy the standard for every intubation—not just difficult airways. Every. Single. One.