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Becker's Hospital Review
5th Annual Health IT + Revenue
Cycle Conference
October 9-12, 2019
Hyatt Regency | Chicago, Illinois
Hear 215+ speakers from hospitals and health systems - focused on Health IT and Revenue Cycle
www.beckershospitalreview.com/health-it-revenue-cycle-conference
IN THIS ISSUE:
• Nurses Sue CHI Over
On-Call Pay: 4 Things to
Know p. 16
• Hospitals, Not Physicians,
Drive Up Healthcare Costs
for Privately Insured p. 20
• $89B: The Annual Price
Tag of Healthcare Wait,
Travel Times p. 37
• Healthcare Leaders
Share Practices for Snaring
Top Talent p. 54
• Your Hospital May
Benefit From a Chief
Purpose Officer — Here's
Why p. 58
• Walmart Drops Price of
Virtual Visits From $40 to
$4 p. 68
• Cedars-Sinai to Equip
100 Rooms with Alexa-
Powered Platform p. 80
• Physician-Hospital
Integration Does Not
Improve Care Quality p. 93
BECKER'S
HOSPITAL REVIEW
April 2019 Vol. 2019 No. 4
EXECUTIVE
EXCLUSIVES:
Ed Kopetsky
Lucile Packard Children's
Hospital Stanford, Stanford
Children's Health p. 106
Saria Saccocio, MD
Greenville Health System
p. 107
Bonnie Clipper, DNP, RN
American Nurses Association
p. 108
Daniel Barchi
NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital p. 109
Lloyd Dean & Kevin Lofton
CommonSpirit Health p. 110
Jean Meyer
Ascension Michigan p. 111
John Couris
Tampa General Hospital p. 112
Leigh Hamby, MD
Piedmont Health p. 114
Eric Eskioglu, MD
Novant Health p. 115
Former Vanderbilt
Nurse Indicted on
Reckless Homicide
Charge After Fatal
Medication Error
p. 88
155+
STORIES
FEATURED
INSIDE THE ISSUE
5 MOST INNOVATIVE
HOSPITALS, According to
300+ Hospital Leaders p. 44
Financial Updates
on Ascension,
CHI, CHS,
Dignity,
Kaiser
Permanente,
Mayo Clinic,
Tenet & More
The Metrics Healthcare Leaders Check Daily p. 59
LIVONGO
HEALTH CEO
ZANE BURKE ON
LEAVING CERNER,
COMPANY GOALS
p. 68