November 2006 Newsletter

National ACEP Show:
"We're Jazzed you're here!"

By: VP of A/R Management Systems and Services

“We’re Jazzed you’re here!” That’s the current catch phrase to visitors of New Orleans, the location of this year’s annual National American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Scientific Assembly. This year’s show was the first major convention to be held at the Big Easy since "the storm.”

The show was held at one of the nation’s largest convention centers, the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, which is 1½ miles long and covers almost 10 city blocks. While the ACEP Assembly didn’t use the entire convention center, the show did utilize approximately 200,000 square feet of exhibit space (or one-third of the convention center's capacity) and contained almost 350 exhibitors!

For three full days, close to 4,000 attendees were invited to visit the vast exhibit hall and to explore display booths featuring everything from coding and billing services, to the latest pharmaceuticals…even Britannica Encyclopedias and Steinway pianos.

Many attendees stopped by the Quadax booth to get a quick demonstration of our newest software application, CodeMax. CodeMax is an online ED chart coding application that allows emergency department coders to code from images instead of paper. It was our featured application at this show and was proudly displayed on a beautiful 19” flat panel monitor for easy viewing. Color brochures and “tin-of-mints” were also available as takeaways for those attendees who were interested.

Most importantly, this show allowed me and my business associate Phil Conard to have some quality "face time" with our long distance clients. It’s also a great venue to revisit other growing relationships, and a great place to create new ones.

All in all, this year's ACEP show was a huge success and a nice shot in the arm for New Orleans!