- Départements du CRP Henri Tudor
- AMS - Advanced Materials and Structures
- CR SANTEC - Centre de Ressources des Technologies pour la Sante
- CRTE - Centre de Ressources des Technologies pour l'Environnement
- CRTI-B - Centre de Ressources des Technologies et de l'Innovation pour le Batiment
- CVT - Centre de Veille Technologique
- SITec - Formation Continue de l'Ingenieur et du Cadre
- SSI - Service Science & Innovation
- Technoport - Incubateur d'entreprises innovantes
MENSSANA
Mobile Expert and Networking System for Systematical Analysis of Nutrition-based Allergies
Project Description
The management of food allergies consists in educating the patient to avoid ingesting the responsible allergen. Patients are required to identify individual allergens in the daily food. Unfortunately, while purchasing their food, people are left alone with ingredient descriptions that are difficult to read and understand. Ingredient lists are printed on the food packages but food producers are not forced by European legislation to provide this information to any governmental institution for consumer protection. Patients food diaries are important to identify individual food related allergens. However, several studies have shown that significant amounts of the data in patients diaries is fudged or fabricated. The project will analyse, how Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can support patients and health professionals in daily life settings.
The MENSSANA project has several main objectives:
- Develop a barcode reading Personal Allergy Assistant (PAA), which helps to distinguish permitted and prohibited food.
- Definition of a standardised Electronic Patient Record for Allergies (EPRA) with coherent patient diaries, acquisition of patient anamnesis, representation of allergy tests.
- Provide food based allergy specific information via Internet.
- Conducting a controlled clinical study to evaluate health economic effects and quality of life.
Contact
Dr. rer. medic. Dipl.- Ing. Norbert Rösch, (MPH) Project manager biomedical engineering and Public Health
Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor, SANTEC
phone: +352 42 59 91 - 1
fax : +352 42 59 91 - 333
The MENSSANA project team
(alphabetical order)
| Team member | Main functions |
|---|---|
| Andreas Arens-Volland (SANTEC) | Technical realisation (main developer, mobile computing) |
| Boriana Büchner (IMSIE) | Medical knowledge representation and transfer |
| Dr. Frank Feidert (CHL) | Medical Supervisor and principal study physician |
| Patrick Harpes (SANTEC) | Database Architecture and GUI, Data Security |
| Lina Hsu (SANTEC) | Web related patient information (until 04/2007) |
| Jasmin Keppler (IMSIE) | Study physician and medical support |
| Sarah Kohler (SANTEC) | Web related patient information |
| Juliane Köberlein (IMSIE) | Health Economics |
| Nico Mack (SANTEC) | Graphical Interfaces and product design |
| Prof. Ralph Mösges (IMSIE) | Scientific Advisor |
| Dr. Norbert Rösch (SANTEC) | Project leader, Conception , Biomedical Engineering, Public Health |
| Marc Seil (SANTEC) | Morphological analysis of food ingredients, statistics (until 12/2007) |
| Ralf Herbst (FH Trier, SANTEC) | Image processing and mobile computing |
and more…
External Advisors of the MENSSANA Steering Committee
(alphabetical order)
- Dr. Jorde (Mönchengladbach)
- Prof. Dr. Schlöndorff (Aachen)
- Prof. Dr. Schneider (Trier)
- Dr. Shannoun (Luxembourg)
- Prof. Dr. Zuberbier (Berlin)
- Prof. Dr. van Cauwenberge (Ghent)
Project Partners
| Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg | Universität Köln Institut für Medizinische Statistik, Informatik und Epidemiologie-IMSIE |
|---|---|
| Dr. Frank Feidert (+352)43777-2982 | Prof. Dr. med. Ralph Mösges (+49)221 478-3456 |
Funding
This project is funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche - FNR