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S: I'd pay $200 for home based software of this type.
S: Our software at school runs $4,000 dollars for the latest version.
S: Circumference measurements would be best for home use during body
   analysis. 
S: The software should be able to compare not only individuals, but
   groups of people, as in corporations.


The Whole Interview (well, not really)
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Todd:
We've downloaded a lot of those and checked them out.

S:
You're familiar with what kinds of things are done, and your just trying to
figure out...

T:
We've seen some things briefly that apply to one part
of conceptualizing what you eat.
this program gonna be taking a combination of a bunch of different things.

s:
There are programs like that.  There are plenty of programs on the market
already 
that are comprehensive wellness programs.  To look at profiles, glucose,
every askpect of fitness you can consider... body
composition measurements.  The ask questions of what your'e eating, whether
or not you wear a seat belt.  Whether you have explicit behaviors that raise
your risk of aids.
Those are already available on the market.  Not to say this isn't a good
 project for you guys.

T:
So you currently use software like that.

S:
Yes.

T:
What do you use it for at the wellness institute.

S:
We market assessments to individuals and corporations.  We do welchecks, our
name for assessment of the corporations.
That's our cachy name for this wellness assesment.
It's a comprehensive assessment for the individual, their habits, and fitness
levels.  Normally when we're running wellchecks, one component that we don't
have is lipid profile and a glucose measurement for example.  We do it for
corporations.  WE do do a blood analysis, give the results to a hospital, and they add it in to our
data.  That's something we do here as well as see clients regularly.

T: Do you provide recommendations through the software?

S: 
Are you... 

T: Does the software you provide give a series of recommendations, or is it 
just a tool you use to give recommendations?

s:
It provides recommendations itself, but we use that basically as a background
material for the person.
We feel we can do a better job orally in giving recommendations...
and discussing the results formally rather than just having a computer
giving recommendations.  We usually include explanatory material ourselves.
Generally, you can get the information across better talking to someone rather
than simply making someone read the information... but we do both.
So for example, when we do a wellness example on an individual, a person
goes through three components.
First they will do the written questionairre, which is all about their 
lifestyle
habits, eating habits, risk habits... things of this nature.
Secondly, they will go through a fitness testing in our facilities.  We will
do a comprehensive test of fitness evaluations, including strength flexibility,
cardiovascular fitness, body composition.
Third, after we put all of that in the computer, and generate a report, we
bring them in and give them their report, go over the report, explain it,
We discuss goals, and write out a prescription.
We like to individualize the information on what the person tells us, rather
than what is output from a computer program.

T:
Which computer program do you use now?

s:
WellSource, which is the name of the company.
Its probably the leading software in the industry.

t:
Is there anything that you don't like about it?

s:
If we went through it line by line, I could show you places where this part
I like better than that part.  Their newest version, which we don't have
Some of the changes I like, some I don't like.
WE have a version 7 years old.
The new program, was released this year.
To describe the program now would take too long.

J:
Are you familiar with a program called nutrigenie, 

s:
It sounds familiar, maybe because its cacy it sounds like a program I heard
about, but I'm not familiar with it.
There are lots of nutrition software programs.
The one we use when we're only doing nutrition is the food processor.
and our department also has the dine program.
Dr. Mell Williams is the sports nutritionis here at odu.  He is one fo the 
leading sports nutritionists in the world actually.  In his sports nutrition
class, he uses the dine program.  But the Food Processor program is a little 
bit more user friendly and we use it in the wellness institute when we're 
doing dietary analysis.
For example I mentioned some problems with Wellsource.