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Special Lists Issue: Largest Hospitals, Top-Grossing Hospitals & More! p. 16 INSIDE 7 Forecasts on Hospital Inpatient, Hospital Review Outpatient Volumes p. 36 August 2013 • Vol. 2013 No. 8 Keeping the Patient at the 10 Things the Most Da Vinci Center: Progressive Hospitals Do Robots: Q&A With Beaumont Health CEO Gene Michalski p. 14 By Molly Gamble Minimally It’s been said that there are three types of people in the world: the ret- Private Equity rograde, the stationary and the progressive. The same could be said for Invasive and Nonprofit organizations, particularly in healthcare. There are hospitals that will Miracle or Hospitals: cling to the ways of the past. There are also organizations that will set- Strange Bedfellows or Saving tle as they are, resisting major change, surviving rather than excelling. Costly Grace? p. 41 Then there are the progressive ones, the hospitals defying the norm. These hospitals are tackling challenges that surpass the confines of Conundrum? A Look Into the their singular institutions. One hospital vowed to share its prices for By Jim McLaughlin Pressing Need common services and, just to add some teeth to it, challenged local for Health IT competitors to do the same. Minimally invasive surgeries have grown continued on page 8 in use among surgeons and favor among Talent p.52 patients and payers. Robotically assisted surgery performed using the da Vinci ro- INDEX Positive Hospital-Union bot is the latest technologic upgrade, but Special Lists Issue p. 16 new research is calling its effectiveness — and higher cost — into question. Clinical Integration Relationships: Open & ACOs p. 21 But, even some healthcare executives Executive Briefing: Communication is Key skeptical of the da Vinci’s cost-saving Population Health p. 22 potential find the machine indispensable By Heather Punke Compensation p. 35 in recruiting physicians and marketing Finance, Revenue Cycle & Unions in general have been in decline in the United States over the to patients. ICD-10 p. 36 last 20 years. In 1983 the union membership rate — the percent of Executive Briefing: wage and salary workers who were members of a union — was 20.1 Rise of the robots Emotional Intelligence p. 37 percent, and there were 17.7 million union workers. In 2012, the union Laparoscopic surgeries have been rec- Transaction & Valuation membership rate was 11.3 percent, and there were just 14.4 million ognized as safe alternatives to traditional Issues p. 41 union members, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. open surgeries, with shorter hospital Executive Briefing: stays, less blood loss and faster, less Protecting OR Revenue p. 43 The healthcare industry, however, is swimming against the stream. Last painful recoveries. The da Vinci ro- Executive Briefing: year, 20.8 percent of healthcare workers — people in healthcare practi- bot allows surgeons to perform a type Specialty Hospitalists p. 48 HIT p. 52 continued on page 12 continued on page 13 REGISTER TodaY! 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