Abstract
Using Electronic Health Record Data for Healthy Weight Surveillance in Children, San Diego, California, 2014.
Highlights
The expanded use of electronic health records (EHRs) provides new opportunities to monitor population health at the local level
The federal government illustrated the use of aggregated EHR data, through electronic clinical quality measures, to assess blood pressure control and encouraged further use of eCQMs for population health surveillance [1]
We identified body mass index (BMI)-forage percentiles for children aged 2 to 18 years, excluding biologically implausible values, by using an anthropometric SAS program (SAS Institute, Inc) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Summary
The expanded use of electronic health records (EHRs) provides new opportunities to monitor population health at the local level. The federal government illustrated the use of aggregated EHR data, through electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), to assess blood pressure control and encouraged further use of eCQMs for population health surveillance [1].
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