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Save the date! Becker's Hospital Review 6th Annual Meeting — May 7-9, 2015 — Chicago. Please call 800-417-2035 to register. 7 January Issue. On behalf of Becker's Healthcare, I wish you a healthy and happy start to 2015. I am excited to kick off the year with this issue, which has a special focus on leadership. Population health, infection control, meaningfully integrating systems, big data — these are just some of the challenges facing hospitals this year. The editorial team took a look at 10 of the largest obstacles hospitals will face and asked experts how organizations can treat these challenges as opportunities. In the next few pages, you'll find the annual list of "50 of the Most Powerful People in Healthcare," which includes some of the most influential men and women from every sector of healthcare. I expect these individuals to con- tinue making waves in 2015. The issue contains a roundtable with four hospital and health system CEOs who discuss their New Year's resolutions. The editorial team also set out to explore how health systems without accountable care organizations are suc- ceeding at population health, whether the physician shortage is real, what health system and hospital CFOs are most worried about this year and how hospitals' capital investments are evolving in a time when the industry is aim- ing to avoid hospitalizations. The special leadership focus is celebrated in a number of stories, including a list of 10 things the smartest people in healthcare do, a leadership com- petency test, an assessment of whether your organization can survive as an independent hospital and an overview of the five core management mistakes that can result in a health system's failure. The issue also contains a number of columns, including those from David Pate, JD, MD, president and CEO of St. Luke's Health System, Chuck Lauer, former publisher of Modern Health- care, and Editor-in-Chief Molly Gamble. 6th Annual Meeting and CIO Summit. Becker's Hospital Review is host- ing its 2015 Annual Meeting in Chicago, May 7-9. More than 150 hospital and health system executives are speaking at the event, which will feature more than 100 sessions on hospital and health system strategy, finance, lead- ership, physician alignment, the patient experience, health IT and much more. Keynote speakers include Joel Allison, CEO of Baylor Health Care System and Baylor Scott & White Health, Kevin Lofton, CEO of Catholic Health Initiatives, and Nancy Schlichting, CEO of Henry Ford Health Sys- tem, among many other bright minds and talented leaders. The meeting will be held at the Swissôtel in Chicago, just off Michigan Avenue. Also, please join us for the Becker's Chief Information Officer and Health IT Summit on July 20-21 at the Ritz-Carlton Chicago. We are thrilled to have more than 50 outstanding hospital and health system IT executives discuss the role of the CIO, social media, data analytics, mHealth and EMR issues. We will conclude the day with one terrific CIO panel and then have a cocktail reception with networking. Network with hospital executives as our speakers discuss their biggest concerns and how they are addressing them. To learn more about these events and register, visit: http://www.beckers hospitalreview. com/conference Should you have any questions or if I can be of help in any manner, please do not hesitate to contact me at sbecker@beckershealthcare.com. I can also be reached at (800) 417-2035. Thank you, as always, for reading. Very truly yours, Scott Becker Publisher's Letter Our Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures: Often Copied, Never Duplicated. The advantages are plentiful . So are the pit falls. W hich means you need skilled hands as well as industry expertise to make your joint venture surgery center work. ASCOA provides leadership f rom MDs as well as MB As and was founded by three surgeons. No other company has the breadth of clinical and business experience. Learn today about the joint venture model everyone else emulates and the specif ic things to consider before embarking on a hospital-physician surgery center. Visit ascoa .com and get results no one else can match. ASCOA.COM 866-98ASCOA AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTERS of AMERICA SM