Health electronic records are a convenient tool available to health care professionals and weight loss clinics to maintain an easily accessible account of an individual's progress in a weight loss program from the initial contact.
Bariatric EHR is accessible not only to doctors, dieticians and fitness experts associated with the program but also to patients who can check their progress online.
Obesity is essentially a result of energy imbalance, in simple terms.
When an individual consumes more food than what is needed to produce the energy required to carry out the normal day-to-day activities, then the excess potential to produce energy gets stored in the body, resulting in weight-gain.
Overweight bodies may also be the result of several genetic, socio-economic, psychological and environmental factors that may not necessarily be associated with food intake.
Risk factors often associated with obesity are diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, certain forms of arthritis associated with limited mobility - as indicated by hundreds of bariatric hers.
While surgery may be advised from some who do not respond favorably to weight loss programs, it must be remembered that there are several complications associated with various bariatric surgeries.
Scores of bariatric hers show various post operative complications such as vitamin deficiencies and malnutrition, hernias and bleeding at the operation site, among others.
Every patient in a weight loss program has the right to be treated with dignity, with care and respect and be allowed to participate in decisions regarding the course of treatment.
The patient also has the right to weigh the relative advantages and risks involved in a recommended surgery and decide to refuse to undergo the surgery, be informed about the possible outcome of not getting the surgical procedure done.
Bariatric EHR hold all the details regarding recommendations made, prescriptions of medication and reactions of patients to various medication, so that any specialist or physician attending the patient gets the complete picture.
An equally important aspect that needs to be take care of is that the patient has the right to privacy and confidentiality of the bariatric EHR associated with the treatment at the clinic.
Access to these records should be granted only to authorized personnel and healthcare professionals who are part of the weight loss program.