[Conscience of a Conservative]

That's not what this regulation requires. This regulation requires that any electronic health records system has the capacity to automatically compute BMI. It doesn't require that every record includes BMI.

[historyrepeatz]

Oh, that’s so much better. /sarcasm. Now we have frickin’ robots calculating our fat index. Nothing like Commiecare “personal touch”.

[meyer]

This regulation requires that any electronic health records system has the capacity to automatically compute BMI.

Anybody that can't calculate BMI needs to go back to sixth grade. It's simply the weight (in kilograms) divided by the height (in meters) squared. Nothing more, nothing less. For example, if you're 6 foot tall (1.83) meters, you take the height and square it (1.83 X 1.83 = 3.35). Then take your weight in kilograms, say 70 (155 pounds), and divide it by the result of squaring your height (70 / 3.35 = 20.9). Congradulations, at 6 foot tall and 155 pounds, you are at a "normal" weight with a BMI of 20.9. A little scrawney, but that's the way BHO wants you.

BMI remains a pi$$-poor indicator of body fat content.

[muawiyah]

Really doesn’t matter. BMI is junk science. There’s no objective use for it. The people who put the requirement in the regulations should be shown the error of their ways anyway.