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MEDIA CONTACT:
Jacqueline Leao: 650-564-9600 Extension 3
jacque@nutrihand-inc.com
Nutrihand Launches Free
Online Health Service for Dietitians
Nutrihand Pro Enables Creation of Personalized Meal
Plans and Patient Real-time Monitoring
Mountain View, Calif. — August 9, 2005
— Nutrihand, Inc., an Internet-based health management service,
today announced the launch of Nutrihand Pro, the first free, online
health service designed to provide dietitians, educators and health
care professionals with the tools they need to create personalized
meal plans for their clients. If their client also registers for the
service, the two can be linked together so their routine can be
monitored, and adjusted as appropriate. It helps dieticians to
identify how a treatment is affecting a client’s health and what
needs to be done to correct it.
“When prescribing a diet plan for a patient, you
often don’t see a patient until the next scheduled appointment so
there’s no way to make adjustments to your recommendation along the
way,” said Patricia Booth, MS, RD a registered dietitian with over
25 years of experience in clinical nutrition and dietetic education.
“With Nutrihand Pro, you can monitor your patients more closely and
make substitutions and changes as their lives change. Your patients
have much more freedom to live the way they want to live while still
following a program. This service is indispensable in creating
realistic changes in a patient’s behavior.”
“Nutrihand Pro is a versatile, interactive
service that allows dietitians to deliver real value to their
patients,” said Soraya Bittencourt, chief executive officer at
Nutrihand. “The tools can be used to plan meals, create recipes and
calculate nutritional values for any number of patients, and for a
variety of medical conditions. As a result, the service can help
busy healthcare professionals see more patients, create more
personalized treatment plans and better monitor their client’s
progress going forward.”
Nutrihand Pro provides dietitians,
educators and health care professionals with easy access to the
largest online database of foods available today, including First
DataBank, USDA, custom ethnic foods and fast food chains. Meal plans
can be assigned electronically to patients, or printed from any PC
or Macintosh computer.
Key Benefits
Enhance client communication through
interactive health management tools
Choose from 35,000+ food items from our
database including foods from fast food chains and restaurants
Create meal plans customized for clients
Create custom foods to use in your plans
Create your own plans and recipes with
nutritional facts calculated for you
Access to Nutrihand healthy recipes
Assign plans for clients to follow on
paper print outs and online at Nutrihand.com
See your clients’ compliance
Deliver quality care while increasing your
client base
Demonstrations of Nutrihand Pro will take place
at the American Association of Diabetes Educators Annual Meeting,
August 9-11, Washington D.C. in Booth #1448.
To register for Nutrihand Pro, or view an online
demonstration of the service, visit
http://www.nutrihand.com/pro
About Nutrihand Nutrihand, Inc. is an
Internet-based health management service that specializes in helping
individuals living with health complications such as weight gain,
obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and celiac disease.
Nutrihand delivers an all-in-one solution that allows users to
easily plan, track, and report their food consumption, exercise and
vital signs. Privately-held, Nutrihand is headquartered in Mountain
View, California, USA.
For more information, visit the company’s website at
www.nutrihand.com.
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