ASA Launches First-of-Its-Kind Collaboration with C8 Health

Bringing Gold-Standard Anesthesiology Clinical Guidance to Clinicians at the Point of Care 

CHICAGO, Oct. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) announced the launch of a novel collaboration with C8 Health designed to provide clinicians with access to their standards, practice guidelines, and statements when and where clinicians need them. C8 Health's innovative solution centralizes best practices for individual clinicians, hospitals, and health systems. Through this collaboration, ASA's trusted standards, practice guidelines, and statements can now be integrated into health care institutions' clinical workflows and local policies and procedures. 

"ASA is excited to collaborate with C8 Health to provide clinicians with real-time, point-of-care access to our many practice-defining, peer-reviewed standards, guidelines, and statements," said ASA President Donald E. Arnold, M.D., FACHE, FASA. "Ensuring physicians can quickly and easily reference ASA's guidance and clinical best practices, integrated with those of their hospital on a centralized platform, equips our members to most effectively impact patient safety and the quality of care provided by their anesthesia and procedural care teams." 

The integration addresses critical gaps in clinical workflow efficiency and evidence-based care implementation. C8 Health's platform has already demonstrated significant impact across over 100 health care organizations, improving access to knowledge by 5 times. 

"We are thrilled to collaborate with ASA to make their trusted guidance accessible to thousands of clinicians," said Galia Rosen Schwarz, CEO and co-founder of C8 Health. "Using our AI-powered solution, hospitals can easily stay current with the latest ASA perioperative guidance, while society leadership gains real-world insights into guideline implementation and adoption gaps across the country." 

The collaboration will further enhance C8 Health's offering by introducing Evidence Compare™, a new capability within C8 that allows hospitals to: 

• Scan organizational protocols for alignment with national and international guidelines
• Generate detailed reports highlighting discrepancies and optimization opportunities to identify quality improvement
• Provide insights into the penetration and influence of national guidelines in clinical practice

To learn more about C8 Health, go to www.c8Health.com or stop by Booth #325 at ANESTHESIOLOGY^® 2025.

ABOUT THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS
Founded in 1905, ASA is an educational and scientific society with 59,000 members organized to advance the medical practice of anesthesiology. ASA is committed to ensuring anesthesiologists evaluate and supervise the medical care of all surgical patients. For more information, visit asahq.org.

ABOUT C8 HEALTH

C8 Health is the first best practices implementation platform built for clinical teams. The company is on a mission to eliminate care inconsistency by bridging the gap between clinical protocols and real-world practice. C8 Health leverages AI to deliver vetted treatment protocols directly into existing workflows through mobile, web, and EHR systems while automating critical processes like onboarding and quality interventions. Trusted by over 100 leading hospitals including Mount Sinai, UCSF Health, and Brigham & Women's, C8 Health enables healthcare teams to implement their best practices effectively and efficiently. Learn more at c8health.com.