Doctoral students from Aalborgs International training course perform test at Herlev Hospital

Is it possible to support food & nutritional care services at hospital with modern information communication technology?

Last modified: 08.09.2015

That was the question six doctoral students from Aalborg University’s International training course was asked to answer on when on Tuesday August 26 they were sent on a Hands on Exercise at Herlev Hospital's simulation laboratory. The exercise was arranged in cooperation with central kitchen at Herlev and the dietetic department.

The students were a part of the international research training course "ICT Assisted Methods for Measuring Diet & Behaviour in Complex Foodscapes” and the purpose was to provide a reality check on some of the new labor-saving welfare technologies that make it easier to monitor what patients eat and thus counteract malnutrition. The students had the opportunity to test the devices eButton and Dietary Intake Monitoring System (DIMS) as well as the Food'n Go application. As an outcome of the day practitioners from the hospital, researchers and IT developers agreed to develop and test a prototype of an integrated technology that builds on the best from these applications.

The course was organized by Aalborg University in cooperation with the University of Eastern Finland. It was arranged within the framework of the projects FoodServInSPIRe, Foodtura, Food4Growth and dVices4Food projects and from Nordic Council of Ministers, Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation and the Welfare Tech foundation. The companies Tachista and Syscore as well as Pittsburgh University had been supplying the devices for the testing

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