Sending Healthy Weight Information

Type	Standard / Implementation Specification	Standards Process Maturity	Implementation Maturity	Adoption Level	Federally required	Cost	Test Tool Availability
Implementation Specification	IHE Quality, Research and Public Health Technical Framework Supplement – Healthy Weight (HW)	Balloted Draft	Pilot		No	Free	Yes

Limitations, Dependencies, and Preconditions for Consideration	Applicable Security Patterns for Consideration
The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Healthy Weight Profile Childhood obesity surveillance systems utilize either measured (e.g., NHANES) or parent/self-report height and weight to calculate BMI. The profile also includes the HL7® Occupational Data for Health (ODH) template. Public health agencies have been studying the relationship between obesity and work factors; for example, the prevalence of obesity has been shown to vary substantially by occupation.	System Authentication – The information and process necessary to authenticate the systems involved. User Details – Identifies the end user who is accessing the data. User Role – Identifies the role asserted by the individual initiating the transaction. Purpose of Use – Identifies the purpose for the transaction.

Limitations, Dependencies, and Preconditions for Consideration

Applicable Security Patterns for Consideration

The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Healthy Weight Profile Childhood obesity surveillance systems utilize either measured (e.g., NHANES) or parent/self-report height and weight to calculate BMI. The profile also includes the HL7® Occupational Data for Health (ODH) template.
Public health agencies have been studying the relationship between obesity and work factors; for example, the prevalence of obesity has been shown to vary substantially by occupation.

System Authentication – The information and process necessary to authenticate the systems involved.
User Details – Identifies the end user who is accessing the data.
User Role – Identifies the role asserted by the individual initiating the transaction.
Purpose of Use – Identifies the purpose for the transaction.

Comment

Submitted by gdixon on 2018-09-12

Valuable but not a priority, it should be

Very good to see this included in ISA, the prevalence of obesity and Type II diabetes has a huge impact on health care and patient population quality of life.

As previous comment states - voluntary is not going to see this adopted.

Submitted by kwboone on 2017-11-20

Been there, done that, doing…

Been there, done that, doing it again for the umpteenth year in IHE. It isn't hard, but adoption is low because there's not a significant incentive for use of any standards to do this in light of other mandates (you can call CEHRT/MU/MIPS a voluntary program but, let's be realistic here).