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The Dietary Intake Monitoring System (DIMS): an Innovative Device for Capturing Patient’s Food Choice, Food Intake and Plate Waste in a Hospital Setting

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Portable intelligent devices offer a number of opportunities to collect accurate dietary data for the convenient assessment of food choice and food intake.In this paper we describe a Dietary Intake Monitoring System (DIMS) as a device for capturing accurate data on a patient's meal both before and after consumption in a hospital setting for the assessment of food choice, food intake and plate waste.The DIMS consists of a digital camera, weighing scale, infrared thermometer, radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader, and a user RFID transponder card.The digital camera and weighing scale captures a digital photograph and measures the weight of content on a patient's plate before and after consumption.The temperature of food prior to consumption is also recorded with the aid of an infrared thermometer.Based on these inputs the DIMS gives an account of the amount of food on the plate as well as of the serving temperature of it.The DIMS prototype offers new opportunities to improve dietary data collection, routine monitoring of meal temperature and patients nutritional intake in hospital settings.

Source: VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet)

Authors: Kwabena Titi Ofei, Michal Dobroczynski, Mette Holst, Henrik Højgaard Rasmussen, Bent Egberg Mikkelsen

Institution: Aalborg University Hospital

Language: English

Topic: Innovation in Digital Healthcare Systems

Subfield: Health Information Management

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: Markedsmodningsfonden, Aalborg Universitet, Aalborg Universitetshospital

OpenAlex ID: W2581257760