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Topic: O'Bomber Obesity Rating for Every American
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jwhop
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From: Madeira Beach, FL USA
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posted July 16, 2010 04:36 PM
 
We're so grateful O'Bomber is taking his valuable time to attempt running all our lives. So intelligent, so caring, so compassionate is he that we should all kneel down and kiss his feet for caring so much for all of us.O'Bomber is also going to put everyone's BMI..body mass index on a nationwide exchange...kept securely by government bureaucrats.  Obesity Rating for Every American Must Be Included in Stimulus-Mandated Electronic Health Records, Says HHS
Thursday, July 15, 2010
By Matt Cover, Staff Writer 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.” The law also requires that these electronic health records be available--with appropriate security measures--on a national exchange.
The new regulations are one of the first steps towards the government’s goal of universal adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by 2014, as outlined in the 2009 economic stimulus law. Specifically, the regulations issued on Tuesday by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Dr. David Blumenthal, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, define the "meaningful use" of electronic records. Under the stimulus law, health care providers--including doctors and hospitals--must establish "meaningful use" of EHRs by 2014 in order to qualify for federal subsidies. After that, they will be subjected to penalties in the form of diminished Medicare and Medicaid payments for not establishing "meaningful use" of EHRs. Section 3001 of the stimulus law says: "The National Coordinator shall, in consultation with other appropriate Federal agencies (including the National Institute of Standards and Technology), update the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan (developed as of June 3, 2008) to include specific objectives, milestones, and metrics with respect to the following: (i) The electronic exchange and use of health information and the enterprise integration of such information.‘‘(ii) The utilization of an electronic health record for each person in the United States by 2014." Under this mandate in the stimulus law, Secretary Sebelius issued a regulation--developed by Dr. Blumenthal--that requires that all EHRs keep track of a person’s Body Mass Index (BMI) score. Body Mass Index is a ratio between a person’s weight and height, and is used to determine whether or not someone is overweight or obese. It is the preferred method of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for measuring obesity. Michelle Obama has made dealing with the problem of childhood obesity the main theme of her term as First Lady. U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin. (Photo by Penny Starr/CNSNews.com) According to the CDC, “BMI provides a reliable indicator of body fatness for most people and is used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems.”
A person’s BMI score is used as a tool to screen for obesity or excessive body fat that could lead to other health problems. While it does not actually measure body fat directly, according to CDC, the BMI scores generally correlate with a person’s body fat percentage.
The new regulations also stipulate that the new electronic records be capable of sending public health data to state and federal health agencies such as HHS and CDC. The CDC, which calls American society “obesogenic” – meaning that American society itself promotes obesity – collects BMI scores from state health agencies every year to monitor obesity nationwide.
“Electronically record, retrieve, and transmit syndrome based public health surveillance information to public health agencies,” the regulations read.
With the spread of electronic health records, the CDC apparently will be able to collect such data more efficiently and with greater accuracy because the electronic record keeping systems can send the data automatically, eliminating the need for government – both state and federal – to keep, send, and process physical records.
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cpn_edgar_winner
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posted July 20, 2010 12:09 PM
yeah i hear the lower your fat rating, the lower your taxes too. i can't wait to get my rebate check pound for pound..  ONE pound of actual fat. IP: Logged |
WinkAway
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posted July 21, 2010 01:43 PM
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katatonic
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posted July 21, 2010 02:10 PM
let's not forget that "pre-existing conditions" have now been removed as a barrier to insurance and healthcare. therefore being obese will not stop you getting either...is there something wrong with electronic records that make it possible for the ER, for instance, to see what your health record is when they don't know you from adam? trying to figure out also if cpn is joking about the taxes or serious, haven't heard anything myself!!and is there something wrong with a first lady who wants to point out a MAJOR health issue with kids? or am i the only person who has seen all the fat kids whose parents have no idea what nutrition is? this is one of if not THE fattest countries in the world. those who tell themselves being fat is not a health hazard, or that it comes from too much GOOD food, are kidding themselves. winston churchill may have lived to be 95 but he spent the last 30 of those years having strokes and becoming increasingly incapacitated. i would object as much as anyone to the government telling me what i can and can't eat. but educating people on what makes them fat and what helps maintain a healthy weight is NOT doing that. IP: Logged |
jwhop
Knowflake Posts: 1986
From: Madeira Beach, FL USA
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted July 22, 2010 09:50 AM
O'Bomber is already trying to tell people what they can eat, drink, drive, how warm or cool to keep their house, what insurance they must purchase and a myrid of other do's and don'ts...as though O'Bomber, the "community organizer" has a clue about much of anything.Soon, medical care will be tied to proper eating...proper in the eyes of O'Bomber and his Socialist clowns and his 2 Dr Deaths, Zeke Emanuel and the new Socialist Medical Care director of Medicare and Medicaid. Need heart surgery? Do you smoke? Sorry Charlie. Need knee or hip joint replacement? Hey, you're overweight. Your BMI is way too high. Sorry Charlie. Of course, you can guess there will be NO qualifyers for those with Aids. IP: Logged |
katatonic
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posted July 22, 2010 10:01 AM
let's not forget that "pre-existing conditions" have now been removed as a barrier to insurance and healthcare. therefore being obese will not stop you getting either...is there something wrong with electronic records that make it possible for the ER, for instance, to see what your health record is when they don't know you from adam? and electronic records are paid for by the attending doctor, and therefore happen ONLY WHEN THE DOCTORS ARE ON PAGE with the process. many are not.no they are not telling us what to eat or drink. monsanto would like to though. tell you what jwhop instead of arguing let's start lobbying - do you not want to be able to tell the difference between GMO foods and NON-GMOs? monsanto is lobbying to have this distinction removed from packaging. nice, eh? IP: Logged |
jwhop
Knowflake Posts: 1986
From: Madeira Beach, FL USA
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted July 22, 2010 10:22 AM
So you have so called "Socialist Health Care". So what?If Zeke and the Medicare Czar decide you've contributed to your own health problem, then it's..."sorry Charlie"....unless of course, you have AIDES and then you go right to the front of the line. Further, anyone in the federal bureaucracy or out with the pass word can access your medical records. IP: Logged |
katatonic
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posted July 23, 2010 11:32 AM
well i know a few people in the medical industry and patient confidentiality is still in practice. having electronic records does not mean that they are going to be accessible on the internet.IP: Logged | |
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