The Catalyst Issue 18 | April 2014 | Page 12

COMMITMENT | to patients and the future Make your voice heard! Visit IdeaExchange.sw.org IDEA EXCHANGE Anyone from a big family knows that with a lot of people come a lot of opinions. It can be a good thing. When you have a family as large as Scott & White’s, extending over a 29,000-square-mile service area, it’s really a great thing. When we all share our ideas, we can shape healthier communities and an improved healthcare system together. We’ve started a conversation with patients and community members in a web-based program called Idea Exchange. Launched in 2013, Idea Exchange is COMBINED an online forum based on a concept called “crowd sourcing,” which is really j \