HITEQ Highlights: Addressing Childhood Obesity in Health Centers
Year Developed: 2019
Resource Type: Archived Webinar.Primary Audience: PCAs
Secondary Audience: Administrative Staff
Language(s): English
Developed by: HITEQ (See other resources developed by this organization).
Resource Summary: This webinar focused on how to improve child weight screening, nutrition and physical activity counselling, and design appropriate and meaningful interventions according to health center peers. A number of tools that support this quality improvement around addressing child weight and potential for obesity were discussed, including Bright Futures guidance and data validation tools from HITEQ.
Resource Details: This webinar focused on how to improve child weight screening, nutrition and physical activity counselling, and design appropriate and meaningful interventions according to health center peers. Discussion and demonstrations of how you may be able to optimize your EHR to encourage accurate and complete collection of required data, and identify children who may need intervention also took place. A number of tools that support this quality improvement around addressing child weight and potential for obesity were discussed, including Bright Futures guidance and data validation tools from HITEQ.
Resource Topic: Clinical Issues, Health Information Technology (HIT)/Data, Quality
Resource Subtopic: Behavioral Health, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Quality Improvement.
Keywords: Nutrition , Obesity, Physical Activity, Screening.This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $6,625,000 with 0 percentage financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.