The DietAdvice website a new innovation for dietitians in clinical practice.

由于澳大利亚的肥胖发病率不断上升，使用计算机技术可能是一种通过增加获得饮食服务来瞄准这些人的方法。在澳大利亚，目前可用的饮食软件只允许分析营养信息。因此，当营养师看到病人时，他们必须手动将食物摄入量转换为营养信息，这是一项非常耗时的运动。DietAdvice是一个为人们输入自己的食物摄入量而开发的网站。食物信息被发送给营养师，营养师为他们提供个性化的饮食建议。对该网站的初步研究已经发现，它在初级卫生保健环境中是可行的。新南威尔士州伊拉瓦拉地区的224名全科医生使用该网站进行了12个月的测试。大约73%的患者超重，BMI高的患者在舒适的家中使用该网站的可能性是其他患者的1.88倍。然而，需要对该网站进行进一步的研究。试点研究的后续研究将旨在完善“饮食建议”网站，使其在临床实践中面向营养师商业化。研究将分为三个阶段。第一阶段将包括网站的可用性测试，评估底层算法，并在私人执业的营养师中进行测试。在第二阶段，志愿者将在获得预先称重的食物量后多次使用该网站。这将决定信息的可靠性和准确性；第三阶段将评估该网站是否具有成本效益，以及它是否增加了特别是农村地区获得卫生服务的机会。通过确认这些属性，将为产品的商业化奠定坚实的基础。

Due to the growing incidence of obesity within Australia, use of computer technology may be a method of targeting these people by increasing access to dietary services. Currently available dietary software in the Australian context only allows analysis of nutrient information. Thus when a dietitian sees a patient they must manually translate food intake to nutrient information, a largely time consuming exercise. DietAdvice is a website that was developed for people to enter in their own food intakes. The food information is sent to a dietitian who develops individualised dietary advice for them. A pilot study of the website has already found it to be feasible in the primary healthcare setting. Tested for 12 months the website was used by 224 patients from GP practices in the Illawarra region of NSW. Approximately 73% of patients were overweight and patients with a high BMI were 1.88 times more likely to use the website in the comfort of their home. Further research about the website however was needed. The research to follow on from the pilot study will aim to refine the DietAdvice website, leading towards its commercialisation for dietitians in clinical practice. The research will be broken into 3 phases. Phase 1 will involve a usability test of the website, assessing the underlying algorithms and testing it with dietitians in private practice. Phase 2 will see volunteers using the website on multiple occasions after being given pre-weighed amounts of food to eat. This will determine how reliable and accurate the information is; and phase 3 will evaluate whether the website is cost effective and if it increases accessibility of health services especially in rural areas. By confirming these attributes there will be a sound basis to commercialise the product.