Roper St. Francis Healthcare is a 657-bed health system that includes more than 110 facilities and doctors’ offices in the South Carolina lowcountry, and is Charleston’s only private, not-for-profit hospital system with a specific focus on community outreach. Roper’s RSF Bariatrics app provides pre-operative guidance to get patients to surgery and then post-op milestones to aid recovery.

Studies have shown increased health literacy to be a significant predictor of health outcomes, with clinical research demonstrating an associated 12 percent reduction in 30-day readmissions with increased patient knowledge of their own care.