Original article written by David Swan for The Australian

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After two years of development Melbourne-based health start-up Health Delivered has launched its personalised dietetics platform, promising to improve the management of Australians with chronic disease.

The team, which has received funding and support from RMIT University’s innovation hub RMIT Activator and Trajan Scientific and Medical, has set out to create the international standard of dietary management through accurate, efficient and effective tools.

Health Delivered CEO Pete Saunders told The Australian health professionals cannot provide personalised meal plans to every client because the process is too time consuming, and many do not have adequate training.

The software is a cloud-based platform that integrates complex scientific information, lifestyle and food preferences and a range of medical conditions to create personalised meal plans in minutes.

The product is available now for health care professionals.

“Over several years of research, our team of dietitians, developers, designers and communicators have collaborated to build a tailor made platform that has been created to support health practitioners while they concentrate on what they do best,” Mr Saunders said.

“The next 12 months are looking really positive. We’re working towards implementing artificial intelligence so clients are given more options based on their personal preferences.

“We’re scoping how we might integrate medical and wearable device data and get more precise results for more complex health issues. And we’ve established solid connections for our overseas expansion, because this is a global problem and we want to tackle it as best we can.”

Dr Tim Crowe from Thinking Nutrition says Health Delivered is an offering he hadn’t sen before.

“Replacing paper-based records with an online system that integrates client assessment records, diet analysis, meal planning and recipe tools and monitoring over time will allow dietitians to offer a higher quality of individualised service and through that improved client outcomes,” he said.