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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 752921" data-attributes="member: 12952">CNSNews.com  — 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.</blockquote>