Fooducate Mobile Health Application: Patient Guide

Scenario for Ms. Wong

Ms. Wong is a 28-year-old female diagnosed with obesity
She lives alone and does not have anyone to support her in her decision to change the unhealthy lifestyle
She has college education and works as a primary school teacher
She struggles to maintain her diet healthy and balanced because she is used to eating junk food
She is willing to exercise and change her diet if she is supervised or can track her progress somehow

Name: Fooducate
Purpose: Track the quality and quantity of food, calories, exercise, scan barcodes to see how healthy the food is
Audience: dieting individuals, individuals who want to lose weight, individuals with diabetes
Mobile Device: Smartphones, tablets (Apple and Android)
Location: App Store, Google Play

Interface: user-friendly, with detailed explanations and comments
Usability: allows tracking food and exercise, checking graded products, and receiving recommendations and advice from the community (Fooducate, n.d.)
Barcodes are scanned with the help of the phone’s camera
Tips can be shared via the app; the patient can receive recommendations from others and send their own
Personalized settings allow grading based on age, gender, the presence of diseases, etc.

Patient can critically analyze the food they are currently eating
Patient can customize goals depending on their objectives (vegetarian diet, gluten-free, etc.) to avoid junk food
Patient can track added and natural sugars in food
More natural food receives better grades, which patient can use as references (Food and Health, n.d.)
Alternative lists provide a choice for unhealthy food chosen by the patient

Food and Health. (n.d.). What we learned about fooducate. Web.

Fooducate. (n.d.). Eat better. Lose weight. Get healthy. Web.