e-Plans to Promote Healthy Weight
A project to enhance the capabilities of electronic health records (EHRs) to include healthy weight plans. Co-created by a family and primary care provider, healthy weight plans set fitness and dietary goals, identify steps to achieve the goals, and track overall progress.
Who
The project tapped into experts in obesity prevention, behavior change, practice redesign and medical informatics to define the key elements and functions an EHR must include to support the effective use of healthy weight plans. The project also engaged the EHR community to learn what approaches are already embedded in current systems, and to relay the desired functionality so that vendors can implement healthy weight plans into existing platforms.
Our Role
Co-lead in scoping necessary EHR functionality to include healthy weight plans in EHR vendor discussions.
Funder
The project was funded by Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), in partnership with Avalere Health LLC.
Project Impact
External Resources
State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
List of PQCs funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Power of PQCs
Video showing the impact that PQCs have on the communities they serve. Produced by the NNPQC.
PQCs in the News
Articles in news outlets covering state PQCs, their activities, and the people that work in the collaboratives.
Patient Safety Bundles
From the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. PSBs are collections of evidence-informed best practices that address clinically specific conditions in pregnant and postpartum people. The NNPQC helps provide TA and support to PQCs in adopting the core AIM Perinatal Mental Health Bundle.
Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
The CDC’s landing page for PQCs, including helpful infographics, videos, and links to help explain what PQCs are, how they work, and stories, learnings, and publications that have come out of the state PQCs.
Related Content
Resources produced by the e-Plans to Promote Healthy Weight project or on related topics
Meet Our Team
“In our deep organizational work to move along the Equity Systems Continuum from a Savior-Designed System to an Equity-Empowered System, we acknowledge the power of action. The potential is limitless for today’s commitments to improve the systems in which health care and public health professionals work and families receive care.”
