Developers can produce intelligent and personalized dietary services for patients and consumers

Boston, Nov. 18, 2021. Personal Remedies is delighted to announce the availability of a new release of its industry-leading Nutridigm API (Application Programming Interface) for health technology developers.

Personal Remedies (PR) knowledgebase is the product of an AI-based technology that can capture, aggregate, analyze and summarize latest research and science available on various types of interactions such as food-disease, nutrient-disease, food-drug, nutrient-nutrient, disease-alternative therapy … interactions and relationships. The PR patented software and algorithms can determine helpfulness and harmfulness of thousands of food items … as they relate to hundreds of chronic illnesses, allergies, diets, medications and health risks.

The Nutridigm API was the only health-focused API included on the list of the 14 Top Artificial Intelligence APIs by the ProgrammableWeb -- the industry’s leading global authority on APIs. Shortly after Nutridigm API was released, it was among the “Most Clicked, Shared and Talked About APIs of 2019: Health, IoT, and Environment” reported by ProgrammableWeb.

The new release of the API takes advantage of the latest tools and technologies to make it significantly easier and faster for developers to subscribe and use the API. There is also a free trial available to developers and organizations.

The food-interaction data in the PR knowledgebase is already in use by 44 mobile apps (Choose This Not That series of apps for various common chronic illnesses), several health tech companies such as Complex Health Solutions and Edamam, an Amazon Alexa skill named My Dietitian, and several telehealth organizations and clinics.

The list of use cases and organizations that could benefit from API access to the PR knowledgebase is numerous:

• Telehealth organizations that wish to expand their services beyond care for acute conditions and offer care for chronic illnesses.
• Health Tech and Corporate Wellness organizations can expand their dietary tools and services beyond the usual weight loss and healthy eating, and address a much broader list of health risks such as autoimmune disorders, cancer, behavioral disorders and various forms of substance abuse.
• Food Retailers and Pharmacies can provide much improved guidance on healthy eating, in store or on their digital platforms. Dietary guidance that is sensitive to the growing population of consumers who suffer from one or multiple chronic illnesses, food allergies and health risks. 
• Reducing Hospital Readmissions. Patients often get discharged with a stack of papers that provide various types of guidance, but there is a void of information on any dietary guidance that takes into account the patient’s multiple health issues and various medications that they might be taking.
• Clinics and Physicians can offer their patients a technology-based service that provides individualized dietary guidance in support of their prescribed treatment.
• Chronic Care Management Reimbursements. Medicare provides monthly reimbursements for chronic care management services delivered by the providers. Nutridigm API is the enabling technology for such services.
• Health and Wellness Coaches can expand their services beyond the most common conditions (i.e., obesity, diabetes and hypertension) to include other chronic illnesses or serve their current clients better by also addressing the comorbidities that they are likely to suffer from.
• “Food Is Medicine”. Any organization that supports and promotes “Food is Medicine”, can use the API to programmatically answer which food is most helpful to which illness.
• “Healthy” Recipes. Many organizations and individuals publish and promote “healthy” recipes, while in fact what may be “healthy” to one individual may be deadly for another! Through the API, they can identify the recipes and ingredients that may be helpful or harmful to a specific condition.

Find more information on the Nutridigm API here. Developers can easily sign up for a free trial and start using the API immediately, here. And the technical details of the API is published here.