Personal Nutrition Advisor

<p>A very successful and highly respected urologist friend of mine (Mass General Hospital, Harvard Professor) once told me that when his patients ask for dietary guidance, he tells them to follow a heart-healthy diet! He acknowledged that this advice is woefully inadequate. As we all know, not all kidney stones, or CKD conditions are alike. What is OK for one patient may be terrible for another.</p> <p>While physicians and clinics recognize the effectiveness of dietary therapy, they often lack the training and expertise to make precise recommendations for their patients. Physicians do not have dietitians on staff, and clinics tend to cut the less profitable in-house dietitians in favor of the much more profitable MRI equipment! Most dietitians are expert in common disorders like obesity, diabetes and hypertension, but are less comfortable managing most of the other chronic disease states. <strong>Both physicians and dietitians can benefit from patient-friendly tools and technologies that can keep up with the vast amount of related science, nutrient-disease, nutrient-nutrient, food-disease and food-medication interactions.</strong></p> <p>In summary, for physicians, we can arm them with a Personal Nutrition Advisor (a fully automated&nbsp;e-dietitian) that they can recommend and use as part of their chronic care management services separately billable on monthly basis. For dietitians we can offer them a tool that they can use in addressing more complex situations, formulating their guidance, preparing their recommended meal plans, and answering food-specific questions. For functional medicine and integrative health professionals, we can enable and automate their conviction to <em><strong>Food is Medicine</strong></em>&nbsp;principle.</p> <p>Most <strong>telehealth </strong>organization, to-date, have focused on care for acute conditions. We can help them beef up their platform and expand their services into care for chronic conditions using our API or private-branded version of our new app.</p>

<p>Our capabilities can help hospitals in two important areas: menu development for patients, and augmenting discharge papers with patient-friendly clear and useful dietary guidance. The main benefits to the hospitals can be <strong>reduced readmission rates, better outcomes and fewer complications for patients&nbsp;</strong>before and after the release from the hospital. &nbsp;</p> <p>While hospitals and their staff recognize the importance of nutrition and effectiveness of dietary therapy, they are often not equipped to pay adequate attention to it. The hospital menu is rarely customized based on the specific hospital sections/floors; let alone patient&rsquo;s individual health profile. High-fat salty slice of pizza and sugar-loaded cookies appear on the same menu and offered to the heart disease and diabetic patients alike! &nbsp;While the staff and the kitchen have very good intentions, facts are that they don&rsquo;t know and do not have the tools that advise them on which specific foods are harmful to an individual patient, or can have a dangerous interaction with a medication taken by the patient, or interfere with absorption of an important helpful nutrient, etc. &nbsp;Spinach is a great vegetable but not for many kidney stone patient. Banana is a great fruit but not for the CKD patient who needs to reduce potassium intake.</p> <p>Another great but missed opportunity for a hospital is the discharge papers that are handed to the patients upon their release. The papers often focus on the hospital internal red tape and medication related topics. With the right tools, they can be augmented with specific dietary recommendations that highlight food choices that would be helpful to the patient&rsquo;s health and recovery, and those that would be harmful and detrimental to the same.</p>

<p>Using our industry standard API, or a private-branded version of our new mobile app, we can continue to help various Health Tech companies, corporate wellness organizations and payers.</p> <p>Growing number of <strong>Health Tech companies</strong> offer a combination of personal coaching and technology-based tools focused on one or two common disorders, in particular, obesity and diabetes. We can help them <strong>expand their services to address other chronic illnesses.</strong></p> <p><strong>Corporate wellness organizations</strong> focus on education and coaching services offered to employees of their corporate clients. Their focus is often on general healthy eating, fitness and weight management. We can help them <strong>expand their services and tools</strong> in support of other common health concerns and risks, offering <strong>individualized guidance to employees</strong>, or <strong>improve scalability &amp; profitability</strong> of their services through increased automation. Through our current partnerships we can also significantly increase the number of healthy recipes that their users can choose.</p> <p>Growing number of <strong>payers</strong> have partnered with health tech companies to focus on prevention and healthy eating, with emphasis on obesity and diabetes. We can help payers and their partners to offer a much <strong>more comprehensive approach to prevention and management of chronic illnesses</strong> for all their members. Just one less doctor visit, one less prescription drug, one less ER visit or one less hospital readmission, per 100 members&nbsp;per year represents a huge ROI for the payers while improving care for their members.</p>