Problem Tech Solves

Poor dietary habits have plagued the US, resulting in increasing rates of obesity and other diet-related comorbidities, such as hypertension. Primary care physicians have repeatedly reported that their patients would benefit from nutrition counseling; however, lack of time, inadequate reimbursement, and insufficient formal training in nutritional counseling remain key barriers. Although dietitians have the training necessary to help patients with diet-related chronic disease most primary care offices are unable to employ dietitians primarily due to limited reimbursement. Unfortunately, helping patients improve their diet remains a costly labor-intensive effort which makes it rarely used in primary care and limits its implementation. Technology has the capacity to reduce costs of personnel staffing by automating key dietetic counseling services with highly personalize recommendations to achieve meaningful and long-term changes. The challenge we are solving is creating impactful digital solutions that deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions to patients to achieve better health outcomes by supporting lifestyle changes such as improved diets to reduce the risk of secondary events. Viocare provides a low cost, low burden, but accurate method to collect the dietary history of an individual and deliver concrete, actionable, and personalized food for dietary change that results in long term diet improvement and better health. We believe a system needs to be in place that automates many of the dietitian’s functions and works with providers to utilize their professional staff to “manage” patients and improve their health. Viocare’s personalized nutrition assessment technology has helped individuals improve their diet and reduce chronic disease.