CHOIS: Enabling grid technologies for obesity surveillance and control

Arun K. Datta, Victoria Jackson, Radha Nandkumar, Jill Sproat, Weimo Zhu, Heidi Krahling

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Abstract

CHOIS, the Child Health and Obesity Informatics System This has been developed with the financial support and sponsorships of Illinois Department of Human Services (DHS), The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and the National University Community Research Institute (NUCRI). Part of this development was presented at PRAGMA 18 [5]. , is developed using open source portal technology with three-tiered Open Grid Services Architecture, an accepted standard for accessing Grid Computing and other services under Open Grid Collaborating Environments (OGCE). Its web application provides web based forms with 112 different fields to enter data ranging from demographic, height & weight for BMI, to genomic information. Automatic computation of BMI, BMI percentile and the risk of obesity alert are embedded into this system. After successful testing of the prototype, CHOIS is now ready to be used by the Illinois Department of Human Services (DHS) for obesity surveillance. This HIPAA & FERPA compliant secure system, integrating large databases in a high performance grid computing environment, enables school-nurse to collect data on school children and report statistical and surveillance information on BMI to identify those at-risk and obese for obesity prevention and intervention programs.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationHealthgrid Applications and Core Technologies - Proceedings of HealthGrid 2010
PublisherIOS Press
Pages191-202
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9781607505822
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event8th HealthGrid Conference, HealthGrid 2010 - Orsay, France
Duration: Jun 28 2010Jun 30 2010

Publication series

NameStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume159
ISSN (Print)0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8365

Other

Other8th HealthGrid Conference, HealthGrid 2010
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityOrsay
Period6/28/106/30/10

Keywords

  • Body Mass Index (BMI)
  • OGCE
  • Obesity
  • Portal technology
  • grid technology
  • mobile technology
  • wellness program

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Health Informatics
  • Health Information Management

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