Place this placard at the front desk, around the waiting area, in exam rooms or bathrooms encouraging patients to schedule a weight-prioritized visit with their primary care provider if they would like medical assistance with their weight. Initial weight-prioritized visits must be made in the clinic, whereas follow-up weight-prioritized visits can be made in the clinic or by Patient Line (via MHC coming soon!).
Once a weight-prioritized visit is scheduled, patients will receive a weight history intake questionnaire via MyHealthConnection (MHC) 72h prior to their visit. It is helpful to let patients know this when they schedule their appointment and also that they should complete the questionnaire at e-check-in prior to coming to their appointment.
Medical assistants are encouraged to remind patients to complete the weight history intake questionnaire prior to weight-prioritized visits. The questionnaire can be completed, or ignored, at the time of the visit, if needed.
Walking the PATHWEIGH
The patient’s answers to the questions in the patient weight management intake questionnaire are designed to direct the conversation and impact the treatment plan.
Use of the disappearing help text PATHWEIGH Epic Tools Video, can import the patient’s answers to the questions in the patient weight management intake questionnaire into any note template as documentation, then serve as menu of options for recommending and/or ordering lifestyle modification (i.e. recommendations for diet, exercise and behavior change), anti-obesity medication or bariatric surgery. Ordering labs or referrals must be done outside the disappearing help text. The weight management PATHWEIGH tool "invisible text" is effectively a menu of options to support the evaluation and plan. It also includes patient instructions for diet, physical activity, and behavior modification.
Use of the weight management smart set (when in a patient encounter > Smartsets > AMB WEIGHT MANAGEMENT > open smartset) can also import the patient’s answers to the questions in the patient weight management intake questionnaire into any note template as documentation, then serve as a menu of options for recommending and/or ordering lifestyle modification (i.e. recommendations for diet, exercise and behavior change), anti-obesity medication or bariatric surgery. Orders can be placed in the smartset and recommendations to optimize billing are built in.
Please see below for video examples of the tools in EPIC
