Dietary Monitoring System inHospital Foodscapes –from DIMS1 to DIMS2, 

Bent Egberg Mikkelsen, Michal Dobroczynski & Kwabena Ofei,  Syscore & Aalborg University

Sino‐Nordic Hospital Food Service & Nutrition Network Project, The 3rd project week, 29 September – 3 October, 2014, Jyväskylä, Finland

Abstract: Cutting food waste and Monitoring Dietary intake are important task in modern hospital foodservice. The DIMS ‐Dietary Monitoring System has been developed within the framework of the Foodservinspire and InspireFood project  and offers an opportunity for easy2use monitoring of food intake as well as a convenient way of monitoring food waste in hospital foodscapes. The presentation gives an account of the development of the DIMS1and the new features anticipated to be in the DIMS2

The challenge• From a research idea tested in research environments

• To a easy2use application to be used in a busyeveryday life professional setting

Big foods – Big FoodWaste

Food waste – facts and figures

1/3of all food is wasted

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£500 bnsavings opportunity

£44 bnin hospitality within developed world

+120%in food prices since 2000

Increasing social pressure and public/private action

Regulatory pressure –landfill bans or higher taxes

Spoilage Preparation Overproduction

Kitchens are inefficient factories

Waste often not measured:

Up to

25%of food is wasted Lack of awareness

Poor operational control

Primary Market

FOODSERVICE & HOTELS

Plate Waste

Secondary Market

RESTAURANTS

1% 1 − 3% 5 − 15% 3 − 5%

Overall

10 − 25%

1 − 5%

1 − 6% 1 − 10% 2 − 25%

5 − 28%

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Real time monitoring of food waste

Ofei. KT: The Dietary Intake Monitoring System (DIMS) ‐ an innovative tool to measure patient’s food choice, intake and plate waste in a hospital setting. Submission to JADA 2014

The Dietary Intake Monitoring System (DIMS) ‐ an Innovative Device for Capturing Patient’s Food Choice, Food Intake and Plate Waste in a Hospital Setting by Kwabena Ofei, Michal Dobroczynsky, Mette Holst, Henrik Rasmussen and Bent Egberg Mikkelsen. Proceedings of Measuring Behavior 2014, (Wageningen, The Netherlands, August 27‐29, 2014). Editors: A.J. Spink, L.W.S. Loijens, M. Woloszynowska‐Fraser & L.P.J.J.) Downloads: conference slides and conference proceedings paper. 

Intake & waste

Served = eaten + left over

Triple Helix IdeaPre competitive phase*

* European Innovation Partnership

Idea: how an evidensbased ”collective (COP) by working in partnership between academia, enterpriseand foodservice/nutrtitional care practice candevelop new ideas that can be taken into the market

Research

Practice

Entrerprise

Tender

The Living Lab Food&Nutrition

Aalborg University HospitalCentre for Nutrition and Bowel Diseases ‐ CET

AAU‐MENU

929 beds

74500 admissions/year

560000 ambulatory visits

6500 employees

02‐10‐2014 Bent Egberg Mikkelsen, PMP 2014    

TripleHelix

FSL and Integrated Food Studies: www.ifs.aau.dkThe greeenhouse for the DIMS

Two kinds of transformations

• Research: Money intoknowledge

• Innovation: Knowledge intomoney

Research2innovation

• Research• Presenting at conferences

• Creating evidence• Publishing papers• Collecting research data

• Commercial• Investigating practiceuse

• Exploring commercialpotential

• Attracting capital

Beyond the DIMStwo tracks to work on

DIMS2 Research track, validation, feasibility etc

DIMS2: Commercialisationtrack, Syscore, Winnow Solutions

DIMS1. FoodServInSPIRe

2012‐2015 2014‐20xx

Questions askedExamples

DIMS1 track Commercialisation track Research track

2012 Prototype

2013 Capturing data

2014 Publicity

2014 Can it be built into a flightcase

Validation: can it substitutetraditional dietary intakeestimation methods

2014 How much will it save in real life

How can the picturerecognition tech bedeveloped

Proof of concept What algoritms to use

2015 How can it be interfacedwith the underlyingdatabases (nutrtients, carbon costs)

From DIMS1 to DIMS2some things to consider

• Proof of concept• Attracting venture capital• Validation• Creating funds for research track• Setting the research agenda (ISBNPA, ICCAS, Mesauring Behaviour)

• Patents • Intellectual Property (IP) protection

Action plan

• DIMS 1.2• Winnow Solutions• Inspire Food

• DIMS 2.0• Danish Research Council

Workplan

• Trainee to work on the backbone to foodcomp.dk in june during her research stay at AAU MENU. Supervised by Kwabena

• Work in the picture recognition algorithm. Kwabena, Sergey and Michal

• Fundraising for the DIMS2. Bent and Lisbeth Nannerup will work on that. May 2014

• Get together in skyperspace. • Skype meeting on how to proceed with the DIMS2 projects including fundraising