Researchers at UMass Medical School and UMass Lowell are collaborating on a new cyber-infrastructure technology with the aim to allow patients, researchers and physicians to transport and store large quantities of data, including sensitive information, through a secure system.
The system, Flexware, will be pilot tested in a clinical trial to more accurately estimate the caloric intake of obese patients. The project is being funded by a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation. “We are doing this research because people often have difficulty recording what they eat, the portion size and where they eat,” Yunsheng Ma, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, UMass Medical School, said in a press release statement.
