How to promote dietary habits changes with drupal: predircam.cat
Submitted by robertgarrigos on June 25, 2009 - 13:08
Your session in a few words:
How to promote healthy habits with drupal: predircam.cat
Track:
Business development and strategy
Session Type:
Lecture
Level of expertise:
Beginner
Language:
English PREDIRCAM (Technological Platform for the Prevention of Diabetes Mellitus and Cardio Metabolic Risk) is an innovative technological platform which aims is to provide, to both patients and healthcare professionals, a comprehensive tool to improve the efficacy of behaviour modification by means of the intensive utilization of new technologies for the prevention of diabetes mellitus and cardiometabolic risk.
The PREDIRCAM platform is composed by two main components:
1.- An integrated set of wearable physical activity monitors (e.g. heart rate, pedometer);
2.- A web-based application providing:
- an electronic clinical record;
- a communicate interface with the monitoring devices;
- an innovative application to facilitate the recording and monitoring of dietary intake;
- a bidirectional communication system shared by healthcare professionals and patients;
- intelligent alarms and notifications;
- online lessons;
- and a smart personal assistant.
This sessions will be a showcase of the Drupal build on predircam.cat as the web platform for PREDIRCAM and some of the modules developed for it: Diet, Weight and Exercise modules to log dietary, weight and exercise data.
PREDIRCAM is a project carried out by:
- CIBER-BBN - Endocrinologia i Diabetis, Hospital de Sant Pau - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (EDUAB-HSP), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER-BBN - Grupo de Bioingeniería y Telemedicina (GBT), Madrid, Spain
- CIBER-BBN - Grupo de Investigación de Ingeniería Biomédica de la Universidad de Sevilla (GIB-US), Sevilla, Spain
