MP: MyFood: a validated system that reduces malnutrition in health care.

Disease-related malnutrition is a challenge in hospitalized patients. Approximately 30% of patients are malnourished or at malnutrition risk. Malnutrition leads to increased morbidity and mortality rates among the patients, a longer length of hospital stay, higher readmission rates, and increased costs for the hospitals. Despite national guidelines and the incorporation of disease-related malnutrition in the national patient safety program, several barriers for good nutritional care and treatment exist. The nurses experience a lack of knowledge, competence, and tools to follow-up this large group of patients. As a research project, researchers have developed and validated MyFood - a proof of concept for a digital decision support system to prevent and treat disease-related malnutrition. The MyFood system consists of an app for use among patients and a website for use among nurses and health care professionals. In MyFood the patient or a nurse record food intake and nutrition-related symptoms. MyFood calculates automatically the patients' needs for energy, protein, and liquids and compares the intake with the individual patient's requirements. The nurse receives a report including tailored recommendations for nutritional treatment and a draft for an individualized nutritional care plan. The POC-system was tailored for Rikshospitalet and a universal solution is under development. The researchers and Inven2 have been working dedicatedly on commercializing the MyFood solution by establishing a company, which will supply this product to hospitals and municipalities in Norway and abroad. The company FoodCapture AS has been established, we are in dialogue with the company representatives on license agreement.

We have delivered all the planned work packages, and achieved very good results on all of them. During the project, we initiated three pilot project locations, one of them became our first paying customer. We have also received CE mark classification 1 and established a company with the name FoodCapture AS.The company will develop the product further towards commercial implementation.