OBESITY RATING FOR EVERY AMERICAN MUST BE INCLUDED IN STIMULUS MANDATED ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS

DOES THIS MEAN WE WON'T BE ABLE TO BUY FOOD? Feeling a little..."squeezed??

Obesity Rating for Every American Must Be Included in Stimulus-Mandated Electronic Health Records, Says HHS

New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records--that all Americans are supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year--must record not only the traditional measures of height and weight, but also the Body Mass Index: a measure of obesity.

The obesity-rating regulation states that every American's electronic health record must: "Calculate body mass index. Automatically calculate and display body mass index (BMI) based on a patient's height and weight."

posted by : Nancy Kennon on July 16, 2010
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