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Technology

NAVICENT HEALTH PHYSICIAN IMPLANTS WORLD’S SMALLEST PACEMAKER

Sixty-five-year-old Shirley Henderson of Dublin, Ga., was one of the first in the Southeast to receive the world’s smallest pacemaker when
Felix Sogade, MD, successfully implanted it in her heart at The Medical Center, Navicent Health in June. Comparable to the size of a
large vitamin, the Micra® Transcatheter Pacing System is one-tenth the size of a conventional pacemaker and does not require leads.

Instead, the device is small enough to be delivered through a catheter and implanted directly into the heart.

CARLYLE PLACE, NAVICENT HEALTH OFFERS RESIDENTS CUTTING-EDGE STABILITY TRAINER

Residents at Carlyle Place, Navicent Health benefit from the new SCIFIT Latitude Lateral Stability Trainer for improved balance,
stability and gait. The trainer, purchased by residents through their Carlyle Place General Fund, is one of the first trainers of its kind
and works various muscle groups to strengthen balance.

NAVICENT HEALTH NAMED 2017 MOST WIRED ADVANCED

Navicent Health was the only healthcare organization in the state and one of only 27 nationwide to achieve the American Hospital
Association’s Most Wired Advanced status. In order to achieve the Advanced information technology designation, Navicent
Health exceeded core development in the four focus areas of infrastructure, business and administrative management, clinical

quality and safety, and clinical integration.

HIMSS ANALYTICS HONORS NAVICENT HEALTH WITH STAGE 6 RECOGNITION

Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics announced that 20 Navicent Health outpatient
sites achieved Stage 6 on the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Adoption ModelSM. Navicent Health is known as a leader in
health systems technology, including the adoption of EMR to ensure patient safety, quality and continuity of care.

APP CHALLENGE UNITES HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE STUDENTS TO PRODUCE REAL-WORLD SOLUTIONS

Navicent Health’s Center for Disruption and Innovation, in partnership with Hutchings College and Career Academy and
Mercer University, challenged local students to collaborate in order to solve real-world problems through innovation and
technology. Through the Code 4 Care App Challenge, high school and college students worked together to design, code

and prototype patient-centered apps from start to finish, with a goal of navigating patients and their loved ones through
the continuum of care.

BRINGING ADVANCED CARE TO RURAL AREAS THROUGH TELEHEALTH

In April, Peyton Anderson Cancer Center, Navicent Health (PACC) united with Tift Regional Medical Center in
Tifton and the Georgia Partnership for Telehealth to establish a telegenetics clinic. The partnership will benefit
patients living in rural areas of south Georgia who have concerns about genetic and family history risk factors for

certain diseases. Patients no longer need to travel to Macon for appointments with PACC’s genetic counselor.
Instead, the patients may travel the much shorter distance to Tifton and—through telemedicine—conduct genetic
consultations and testing with PACC’s genetic counselor. The clinic is held once per month and has recorded

24 patient visits since its inception.

The telegenetics clinic is offered in addition to the pediatric gastroenterology telehealth program established in
August 2015 by Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital, Navicent Health, Tift Regional Medical Center and
the Georgia Partnership for Telehealth. That clinic has recorded 237 patient visits since its inception.

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