Coordinating Pragmatic Primary Care Population Management for Obesity

Patients will receive a MyChart activation message assessing weight loss interest that invites them to complete a MyChart Survey encouraging a weight loss goal using principles adapted from Brief Action Planning. Patients will then receive a cellular network-enabled electronic body weight scale, and weighing data transmitted by the scale will be received and integrated into the electronic health record for access by the patient's primary care team.

"Patients will receive via MyChart information and decision support designed to encourage linkages to and participation in intensive lifestyle programs available in the community. Patients who request information or clinical referrals will also receive them. Refreshes of community linkage information will be sent by MyChart every 1 to 4 weeks."

Data received into the electronic health record from the cellular network-enabled electronic scale will categorize each patient based on their daily self-weighing behaviors and rate of progress towards their weight loss goal. Patients who are not engaged in daily self-weighing or are not making progress towards their goal will receive more intensive outreach support in the form of automated weekly MyChart problem solving messages, more frequent encouragement to access a broader array of community resources, and telephonic support from a nurse care coordinator who is an existing member of the primary care team. Support from this nurse care coordinator will be facilitated by the incorporation of each patient's self-weighing data into an EpicCare patient dashboard accessible to the nurse coordinator and other members of the care team