Online Program

Oral

While data for Meaningful Use is increasingly used to evaluate clinical care and outcomes, use of electronic health records (EHR) data outside of the Meaningful Use umbrella has not received sufficient attention. This session will provide information and experience on the use of EHR data beyond Meaningful Use to obtain demographic characteristics of an obese and overweight pediatric population in a rural primary care center for the purpose of informing appropriate, locally relevant intervention strategies. The session will also highlight the need for a heightened level of data maturity in primary care.

Session Objectives: Evaluate the validity of statistics generated from electronic health record analytics tools. Discuss the need for knowledge translation between health analytics and the realities of patient care.