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Overview

Successful use of Health IT enabled Quality Improvement requires a strong organizational foundation. This includes understanding motivating factors as well as barriers, communicating the value of using Health IT to improve quality and outcomes, and building buy in and commitment throughout all levels of the organization. Resources in this section provide ideas and guidance on how to navigate this critical first step.

Event date: 5/30/2019 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Export event
HITEQ Highlights: Addressing Childhood Obesity in Health Centers
Alyssa Carlisle
/ Categories: EHR Implementation, Improving Performance, Using Data for PHM and SDH, Improving PHM and SDH Quality, Webinars, Archived

HITEQ Highlights: Addressing Childhood Obesity in Health Centers

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.

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Tags: EHR Optimization Childhood Obesity Bright Futures child weight screening nutrition physical activity counseling HITEQ Event Childhood Obesity Preventer Badge

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This resource collection was compiled by the HITEQ Center staff with guidance from HITEQ Advisory Committee members and collaborators of the HITEQ Center.

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