Use of an electronic medical record system to support primary care recommendations to prevent, identify, and manage childhood obesity.
Many primary care physicians are not providing care that is consistent with recommendations to prevent, to identify, and to manage childhood obesity. This report presents modifications made to the electronic medical record system of a large pediatric health care system, using a quality improvement approach, to support these recommendations and office system changes. Although it is possible to make practice changes secondary to electronic medical record system enhancements, challenges to development and implementation exist.
Rattay
Karyl Thomas
KT
Nemours Health and Prevention Services, 252 Chapman Rd, Suite 200, Newark, DE 19702, USA. krattay@nemours.org
Ramakrishnan
Meena
M
Atkinson
Aguida
A
Gilson
Megan
M
Drayton
Vonna
V
D015992:Body Mass Index; D002648:Child; D004582:Electronics, Medical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D008499:Medical Records; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*