| | December 20169UTLOOK Healthcare Tech to leverage technology and public-private partnerships to improve not just health status but also overall quality of life.Chief among these efforts is our development of OneCare, a shared community health record. Recently, we announced a partnership with Boston-based eClinicalWorks to develop a next-generation electronic health record. When completed in 2017, OneCare will seamlessly connect records across all Tidelands Health locations via a cloud-centric platform. OneCare will allow us to concentrate on workflows and efficiency in clinical delivery, while supporting process re-engineering with digital workflows. Ultimately, the system will support the free-flow of information across our entire enterprise.We believe this enhanced exchange of information will help us improve quality, lower costs and, in the long term, improve the health status of our community. OneCare is also an investment in the economic health of our region. eClinical Works has deployed a team of professionals who are living and working in our region during the platform builda decision that is having an economic ripple effect on housing, recreation and hospitality services in the community.In addition to OneCare, we're leveraging technology in other ways to help us prevent and combat chronic disease in our region. At our Tidelands HealthPoint Center for Health and Fitness, our region's only medical fitness center, we're using predictive modeling to identify area residents at high risk for pre-diabetes or diabetes. We are then directing targeted education efforts to those individuals, steering them into a prescriptive exercise program called Stronger Through Movement. This is the epitome of population health managementidentifying at-risk individuals before disease develops or progresses and directing them into a low-cost intervention. We're already seeing tremendous physician and consumer buy-in for this initiative, and we are tracking healthcare utilization to determine what impact we are having on health status and expenditures. We believe the long-term impact will be significant. We are also investigating the feasibility of incorporating wearables into this medical fitness program.Of course, not all of our outreach efforts are high-tech. One of our most significant collaborative efforts is the Tidelands Community Care Network, a public-private partnership of 32 communities agencies working together to address health disparities in the region. Since 2012, Tidelands Community Care Network, with funding from The Duke Endowment, has helped nearly 1,200 individuals by providing care management, access to primary and specialty care, referrals for behavioral health care, transportation assistance, chronic disease management and more.We're even partnering with local organizations and individuals to improve bike paths in our regionfunding advertising of existing bike paths and working to incorporate new bike paths into our existing and future campuses.All these initiatives, from the high-tech to the high touch, are essential components of our commitment to smart communities. We are confident this approach is improving the lives of those who call the Tidelands region homeas well as improving the health of the region itself. At Tidelands Health, we are guided by a shared, singular purpose`Better health begins here.' Today, technology and collaboration are helping us fulfill that purpose as never before. HTWe believe this enhanced exchange of information will help us improve quality, lower costs and, in the long term, improve the health status of our communityDr. Todd Rowland
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