Conclusion

Current Implemented Features

            Prenatal Nutritionist is a working demo of the features that we had envisioned.  It does not have the database backend, but the interface itself is essentially complete which allows people to see what the final product would look like.  The Prenatal Nutritionist was designed and implemented using Flash which should be compatible with all PDA’s since Flash has become somewhat of a standard.  Additionally, the screen size is a PDA standard 320 X 320 pixels which if need be can be easily resized.  Currently, Prenatal Nutritionist has the following functionality:

• Enter and Update Personal Information
• Enter and Update Health Information
• Enter Doctors Information
• Select a Workout
• View and Update Workout completed
• Get Meal Suggestions
• View Graphs and Charts on Progress
• Complete Help Menu
• Transfer Data to PC or Doctor (fixed result due to limited implementation)
• Check Risks of Possible Foods on the Unborn
• Enter Food Eaten (does not store data)
• Delete Particular Food Eaten from Database (fixed)

Work Still To Be Done

          To be fully complete, the Prenatal Nutritionist needs to have a database connected to its interface to store the input data so data would not be lost after every shutdown of the program.  The database would store the following:

• Possible Food Choices.  The food choices are statically stored in a database so the user can search for what they ate rather than entering it manually each time.
• Foods Entered.  The foods that the user has entered in columns for day, week, month, and overall so they can be quickly access and turned into graphs. 
• A Dynamic Graph and Chart of Progress.  The ability to interpret the data and perform simple calculations on the data in order to output it as a graph.
• Workout Data.  Data on how much the user has exercised with columns for day, week, month, and overall so they can, like the foods entered be turned into understandable charts.
• Personal Info.  Store the users name, address, age, weight, and pregnancy info so the user does not have to re-enter the data at every startup.
• Doctors Info.  Doctors name, telephone, email, fax, office, etc… so the Prenatal Nutritionist can send the data directly to the doctor.
• Meal Suggestions.  Picking a set meal from the database which is chosen by interpreting the past food intake and choosing a meal which offers the most nutrients that are needed at that particular time.

          Another item to add to the Prenatal Nutritionist is the USB connectivity.  The Prenatal Nutritionist needs to be able to support uploading to the PC for easier viewing of the charts and data on a bigger display.  Also, PC connectivity allows for the user to email their data to their physician which is a very important feature because it could eliminate some doctors visits during pregnancy and keep the physician more up to date on the health of the user.  Since PDA’s can already easily plug and play with PC’s, then it would seem that just a simple script could get the data to transfer from the PDA onto the PC.  If this is so, future developers would have little work to do with connectivity.  The final item that needs to be implemented is a small PC application which can store the data that is uploaded.  This application would allow the uploaded data to be viewed in charts and graphs on the PC much like the charts and graphs on the PDA already implemented.  This should not be a difficult task but the developers should have sufficient knowledge of windows programs and SQL.  If the connectivity, the database, and the desktop application were implemented, then the Prenatal Nutritionist would be fully functional and could be aiding pregnant woman in having healthier babies and safer pregnancies.   

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