Healthy Weight Prevention Center Web Platform: The virtual foundation of a national quality improvement effort to promote healthy weight

Communication within a trans-sectoral team and with a larger community of like teams is a key feature of improvement. By sharing best practices, innovations, and tools, teams can greatly enhance their work. We will showcase the sentinel features of the web platform created for the Healthy Weight Prevention Center, a collaboration of HRSA and NICHQ. The Healthy Weight Collaborative brings together 50+ teams from communities nationwide; each multi-sector team represents stakeholders from public health, the community, and clinical care. The initiative's health education web platform will serve as the basis for a nationwide quality improvement effort to improve promotion of healthy weight across each participating community and for vetting and sharing of tools nationwide. The platform contains different views for information sharing by individual teams, the collaborative as a whole, and the general public. For teams, the portal facilitates communication among team members that may not be co-located, allowing for updates at the team level. At the next level, the portal will allow for communication among different collaborative teams, including best practice and innovation sharing and problem solving within the larger group. For the collaborative as a whole, the platform will provide a vehicle to report and share data about progress within the collaborative group and with partnering organizations. In addition to its central role in collaborative team efforts, areas of the web site will be accessible to the general public, with information, vetted tools and resources to help communities and families maintain or achieve a healthy weight.