ELADDEN: WIRELESS ASSESSMENT OF NUTRITION AND LIFESTYLE

大多数初级保健从业人员认识到饮食、营养和病人健康之间的重要关系，以及营养咨询的必要性。然而，目前很少有人将饮食评估和营养咨询纳入他们的实践。该项目将开发一个名为电子生活方式评估开发和部署环境（ELADDEN）的系统，以自动管理、收集和分析饮食问卷，并支持饮食干预工作。ELADDEN结合了营养筛选、生物电阻抗分析（BIA）、人体测量、实验室测试和健康问卷调查。病人和办公室工作人员将把背景数据输入到医生办公室的一台带有触摸屏的掌上电脑中。然后，数据将通过无线互联网通信存储到后端服务器。为患者和医疗保健提供者生成评估营养和健康状况的标准报告，以及带有治疗建议的“准备改变”评分。该项目将展示采用带有远程服务器的手持无线技术设计、管理和使用健康和营养调查表的可行性。我们设想了三个层次的病人支持：1)2.医生办公室的治疗和监测进展。2 .为没有改变动机的患者提供信息；当兴趣和需求高时，转介给专家。拟议的商业应用：ELADDEN的商业化潜力非常大。最初的三期市场将包括医生、营养师和家庭保健公司。未来的目标市场包括：医院、诊所、药房、健身中心、公司食堂、健康干预研究、慢性病评估和预防计划、临床研究、减肥计划、营养教育计划以及食品和营养研究或调查。目标人群为提高健康水平的患者、以饮食管理和干预为重点的疾病患者和慢性病高危人群。

Most primary healthcare practitioners recognize the important relationship between diet, nutrition and patient's health, as well as the need for nutritional counseling. However, few currently incorporate dietary assessment and nutrition counseling into their practice. This project will develop a took called Electronic Lifestyle Assessment Development and Deployment Environment (ELADDEN) to automate the administration, collection, and analysis of dietary questionnaires and support dietary intervention efforts. ELADDEN combines nutrition screeners, bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), anthropometric measurements, laboratory tests and health questionnaires. The patient and office staff will enter background data into a handheld computer with a touch sensitive screen in the physician's office. The data will then be stored via wireless Internet communications to a back-end server. Standard reports evaluating nutrition and fitness status and a "readiness to change" score with treatment recommendations are generated for the patient and health care provider. This project will demonstrate the feasibility of designing, administering and using health and nutrition questionnaires employing handheld wireless technology with a remote server. Three levels of patient support are envisioned: 1.) Treatment and monitoring progress in the doctor's office, 2.) Providing information for patients not motivated to change, and 3.) Referral to a specialist when interest and need are high. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: The commercialization potential for ELADDEN is very strong. The initial Phase III market would include physicians, dietitians, and home healthcare companies. Future target markets include: hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, physical fitness centers, corporate cafeterias, health intervention studies, chronic disease assessment and prevention programs, clinical studies, weight reduction programs, nutrition education programs and food and nutrition research studies or surveys. The target patient population in improving their fitness level, patients with diseases in which diet management and intervention is the focus and those healthy patients with a high-risk profile for chronic disease.