User Auxiliary Information Output Device for Post-Discharge Dietary Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing hospital food management systems do not effectively provide dietary advice to patients after discharge, nor do they assist users in managing their meals based on their individual conditions outside of a hospital setting.
Innovation Solution
A user auxiliary information output device and system that inputs user status information and outputs dietary advice using a database of ingredients and cooking methods, allowing users to determine suitable meals and access relevant services.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a hospital food management system is implemented to share information among patients, doctors, nurses, nutritionists, and cooks, then information sharing and meal management within the hospital is improved, but the system cannot provide dietary advice to patients after discharge or outside the hospital setting
Solution Approach 1:
The dietary advice system is designed to serve multiple functions: it provides meal information to patients during hospitalization and continues to provide dietary advice after discharge. The system universalizes the information sharing capability across different settings (hospital and home) and different user groups (patients, doctors, nutritionists), eliminating the gap in dietary guidance continuity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system stores and prepares dietary advice information in advance based on patient conditions, diagnosis, and examination results. By pre-processing and making dietary recommendations available before discharge, the system ensures continuous dietary guidance without interruption when patients leave the hospital.
2Ease of operation
If dietary management is entrusted to users after discharge or for non-hospitalized individuals, then user autonomy is improved, but appropriate dietary management may not be performed
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides continuous feedback to users through dietary recommendations based on their specific conditions (diagnosis, examination results, current status). This automated feedback mechanism ensures that users receive scientifically sound dietary advice tailored to their needs, maintaining high reliability in dietary management while preserving user autonomy in making food choices.
3Reliability
If users are provided with comprehensive dietary information and advice, then dietary management quality is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary component that automatically processes patient data (diagnosis, examination results, status information) and generates dietary recommendations. This intermediary layer handles the complexity of integrating multiple data sources and applying dietary guidelines, thereby maintaining high dietary management quality without requiring direct complex interactions between users and multiple information systems.
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AI summary
A user auxiliary information output device of the present invention comprises a user status information inputter for inputting status information of a user, and an advice outputter for outputting advice relating to user diet, using database information that is a combination of ingredients and cooking methods, obtained in accordance with the status information.