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Streamline Your Workflow, Empower Your Team

To meet the unique demands of outpatient ambulatory surgery centers, 1st Providers Choice’s ASC EMR software offers powerful clinical and administrative capabilities that help healthcare professionals improve workflow processes throughout the care delivery chain.

Our ASC software includes essential features such as adverse event reporting, patient flow management, e-prescription, document management, and patient education.

Reduce costs, enhance care quality, and seamlessly share patient health information between care settings with 1st Providers Choice!

  • Mobile EHR for Providers

    Stay connected, even on the go. Our mobile EHR ensures ASC providers have secure, real-time access to patient records, schedules, and documentation from any device.

  • Online Provider Portal

    Our intuitive platform centralizes everything you need to deliver efficient, high-quality care, from reviewing patient charts to managing surgical schedules.

  • Patient Self-Scheduling

    By enabling patients to choose the time slots that work for them, your ASC team can focus on delivering exceptional care instead of fielding phone calls.

Elevate Patient Convenience and Engagement

Empower patients to take an active role in their care with ASC tools that offer convenience and seamless communication.

From accessing essential health information to managing appointments and completing pre-surgical tasks, our ASC EMR software helps patients stay informed, engaged, and proactive about their care.

By simplifying interactions and streamlining processes, our healthcare solutions enhance patient satisfaction and overall efficiency, helping your surgery center deliver exceptional healthcare experiences.

  • Online Patient Portal

    Keep your patients informed. Our online patient portal allows them to access test results, post-op instructions, and appointment schedules anytime, anywhere.

  • Mobile Patient App

    Quality care, in the palm of your patients’ hands. Our patient app allows them to manage appointments, sign forms, and pay bills—all from a single mobile device.

  • Patient Check-In Kiosk

    Give patients a smoother start to their care journey. Our technology allows patients to verify information, sign consent forms, and check in for surgery effortlessly.

Why Choose Our Ambulatory Software Over Other EMR/EHR Systems?

  • ASC-Centered: 1st Providers Choice strives to meet the complex requirements and detail ambulatory surgery centers demand.
  • Leading EMR Solution: We harness the power of IMS, the leading EMR software system for ASCs.
  • User-Friendly Interface: Our customizable software enhances care coordination among facilities, physicians, and labs.
  • ASC-Specific Tools: We provide custom ASC-specific templates, forms, and built-in ICD and CPT codes.
  • Comprehensive Care Focus: We support you on all levels of care: pre-operative, intra-operative, and post-operative.

Our Proven Track Record Implementing IMS Ambulatory Surgery Center Software

  • Established Expertise: Since 1984, we’ve implemented ASC EMR software and managed hundreds of successful transitions with precision and care.
  • Commitment to Growth: Our skilled team stays ahead by continuously learning and training to meet and exceed ASC EMR standards and requirements.
  • Proven Success: After implementation, our ASC software delivers faster claim payments and significantly reduces accounts receivable days.
  • Seamless Integration: We guide and train your team for a smooth integration of our EMR system.
  • Satisfaction Guarantee: As a specialty-specific EMR software leader, we take pride in our 100% happiness money-back guarantee.
  • Dedicated Support:Once you decide to move forward, you receive a dedicated team, including trainers for your physicians, administrators, and staff.

Effortless Pre-Surgery Prep for Patients and Staff

Surgery Authorization Tracking

With a powerful authorization tracking module integrated into your ASC EMR software, you can track and manage all patient authorizations from a single, easy-to-navigate screen.

Benefits:

  • Pre-validate procedures quickly and easily
  • Make better use of staff resources
  • Improve ASC practice productivity

Maximum Surgery Scheduling Efficiency

Patient and Room Scheduling

With an intuitive and customizable appointment scheduler specially designed for surgery centers, your practice can easily manage patient appointments, including schedules for multiple operating rooms, offices, and providers.

Benefits:

  • Reduce missed patient appointments and surgeries.
  • Improve your surgery center’s overall productivity.
  • Eliminate overbooking appointment slots.

Elevating the Patient Check-In Experience

Check-In/Check-Out

The IMS Check-In/Check-Out module allows your team to manage patients as they move about your ambulatory surgery center during their visit—from initial intake to billing and check-out.

Benefits:

  • Keep careful track of patients throughout their visit.
  • Improve intra-office communication
  • Effectively manage office resources.

Your Surgery Workflow, Streamlined at Every Step

Surgical Planning Sheet

Optimize your surgery planning process on one comprehensive platform. From procedure pricing and start times to billing and post-ops, our ASC-specific solution offers best-in-class digital surgical planning sheets at the best price.

Benefits:

  • Digitally capture and catalog patient consent.
  • Automate notifications and reminders.
  • Streamline prescriptions.
  • Integrate billing into the ASC workflow.

Surgical Preference Cards

Simplify surgery preparation with surgical preference cards integrated into your ASC software. Customize surgeon preferences, streamline case setups, and ensure consistent, efficient workflows for safe, efficient procedures every time.

Benefits:

  • Get quick, centralized access to every surgeon’s preferences.
  • Reduce setup errors with detailed, customizable templates.
  • Improve patient care through precise surgical preparation.

Pre-Op Aldrete Score

Ensure patient readiness and achieve safer, more efficient surgical workflows. With a pre-operative Aldrete score feature integrated into your EHR’s Visit Note module, you can accurately and efficiently evaluate recovery benchmarks, document progress, and streamline pre-op assessments.

Benefits:

  • Ensure consistent pre-op evaluations with standardized scoring.
  • Boost patient safety with accurate readiness tracking.
  • Enhance compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements.

Anesthesia Plan

Seamlessly document preoperative plans, customize anesthesia strategies, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards—all in one place. With an Anesthesia Plan feature integrated into every patient’s visit note, you can simplify documentation and provide patient-centered care.

Benefits:

  • Experience precise preoperative planning.
  • Elevate patient safety.
  • Stay compliant with regulatory and accreditation standards.
  • Ensure clear team communication.

Anesthesia Preference Cards

With ASC-specific preference cards customized to each surgeon’s specifications, your surgical staff can access critical information to help them prepare and perform operations faster, more efficiently, and more accurately.

Benefits:

  • Experience seamless team collaboration and communication.
  • Increase ASC workflow efficiency.
  • Minimize stress and risk of error.
  • Improve patient outcomes.

A Smooth Transition from Surgery to Recovery

Post-Op Prescription Management

Optimize patient recovery with a post-operative prescription management feature built into your ambulatory surgery center EMR software. Streamline medication workflows, ensure accuracy, and provide better patient care with seamless medication handling.

Benefits:

  • Electronically prescribe medications for faster delivery.
  • Reduce errors with built-in safety checks.
  • Offer patient convenience with simplified prescription refills.
  • Stay compliant with automated post-op medication tracking.

Integrated POS System

IMS simplifies your payment processes by enabling you to handle pre-surgery and post-surgery payments directly within your ASC software. From bar code scanning to inventory management, Our point-of-sale (POS) capabilities help you run a more efficient practice.

Benefits:

  • Collect payments directly during check-in or discharge.
  • Offer patients convenient, transparent payment options.
  • Automatically sync payments with the ASC’s billing system.

Simplify Everyday Tasks with Smarter Tools

Inventory Management

Effortlessly manage surgical supplies with our ASC EMR software’s Inventory Management feature. Track, replenish, and optimize inventory in real time for seamless operations.

Benefits:

  • Automate supply tracking to prevent shortages.
  • Get better inventory oversight with real-time reporting.
  • Cut costs with optimized supply ordering.

Reports Center

Manage your ambulatory surgery center as efficiently as possible with a robust reporting and analytics module in your EHR. Our solution provides comprehensive practice reports and a customizable dashboard that covers everything from billing to MIPS.

Benefits:

  • Make data-driven decisions with real-time practice analytics.
  • Track key performance indicators with detailed reports.
  • Identify inefficiencies with thorough trend analysis.
  • Empower decision-making with easy-to-understand visual data.

ASC Staff Time Clock

Track employee hours, manage schedules, and streamline payroll processing with an intuitive, all-in-one solution. Our ASC software includes a Staff Time Clock feature that helps your facility boost productivity.

Benefits:

  • Get accurate data for employee hours.
  • Smoothen payroll processes with automated time reports.
  • Optimize staff assignments with improved scheduling.
  • Enhance transparency and accountability across your team.

Built-In ASC Marketing Module

Automate patient follow-ups, track referrals, and analyze marketing outcomes in your EHR system. By centralizing marketing efforts within IMS, you can enhance communication, build loyalty, and drive referrals to boost your patient base.

Benefits:

  • Ensure patients receive timely reminders and post-care communication.
  • Gain valuable insights into patient feedback, referral sources, and trends.
  • Monitor patient interactions and procedure data to refine marketing strategies.

IMS for Ambulatory Surgery Centers

Discover why so many ambulatory surgery centers are choosing 1st Providers Choice. Call 480-782-1116 to schedule your free, no-obligation ambulatory software demonstration!

Client Success Stories


The software conforms to what I need. It creates templates for all kinds of cases, so I don’t have to say the same thing over and over again continually. But most of all, customer support is there for me. They are friendly, courteous, and willing to help in any way they can.


Dr. Philip C. Agrios
Tinton Falls, NJ


Reduce the high costs of delivering quality care! Our monthly IT expenses were reduced by 87% after implementing IMS—huge savings for our company.


Rashmi Chauhan
IT Director

Top ASC Software FAQs

What features make your 1st Providers Choice’s ASC software ideal for surgery centers?

Our ASC-specific solution is designed to streamline surgical workflows, from pre-op to post-op documentation. It includes customizable templates for various specialties, e-prescription capabilities, anesthesia records, inventory management, scheduling tools, and other features to support high-efficiency environments.

How customizable is the IMS ASC software to fit our specific workflow and specialties?

Yes! If you’re looking for a highly customizable solution, IMS is the best ambulatory software choice. Whether you specialize in orthopedics, pain management, GI, or ophthalmology, we can tailor our templates, reports, and charting tools to match your team’s specific needs.

Does the software help us stay compliant with CMS, MIPS, and other regulatory bodies?

Absolutely! 1st Providers Choice’s ASC software system includes built-in tools for quality reporting, secure e-prescribing, and detailed documentation to support CMS, MIPS, Meaningful Use, and HIPAA compliance. It also generates audit-ready reports and supports standardized coding practices.

What kind of training and support do you offer?

1st Providers Choice proudly provides comprehensive onboarding that includes:

  • Workflow Consultation
  • Staff Training
  • Go-Live Support

Following implementation, our support team is available 24/7 to assist with any technical issues, updates, and optimization needs.

Connect with EMR Excellence

Reach out to 1st Providers Choice for unparalleled EMR and practice management solutions.

Phone: (480) 782-1116