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3 Framework Design

This section first describes the design of VASP , based on the framework shown in
Figure 1. It then presents an overview of using VASP , and introduces the functions of
the system when implemented on a website. Finally, we explain the personalized diet
and exercise guideline recommendation (abbreviated as DEG ) used for analyzing the
individual report of regular comprehensive physical examination and offering related
guidelines to users.

3.1 Overview of System Workflow

Traditionally, users have a report of comprehensive physical examination from medi-
cal institutions, and then find out the meanings of the report on the internet or web-
sites provided from medical institutions in Taiwan. If users want to understand how to
have diet and exercise guidelines for health according to the report, they have to go to
medical institutions and ask for self-care guidelines from health care providers.
Furthermore, health care providers usually rely on experience to tell whether user's
physical examination items are normal or not and recommend the guidelines for users,
without the use of any references. This is inconvenient, and can lead to a lower quali-
ty of providing health care.
To solve these problems, VASP designs diet and exercise guideline recommenda-
tion (abbreviated as DEG ) to automatically analyze the report of comprehensive phys-
ical examination and recommend the guidelines for users, so that users do not need to
go to medical institutions to get this information. In addition, DEG provides a simple
way to let health care providers can easily transfer their knowledge of health care into
VASP .

Health Care Providers

Medical Institutions

Diet and Exercise Guideline
Recommendation Module

Report of
Comprehensive Physical
Examination

Guideline Recommendation

Diet and exercise
guideline recommendation

Diet Information Edit

Exercise Information Edit

Disease Guideline Edit

Supervising and Reminding Module

Supervising Function

Reminding Function

Data visualization

Diet guidelines Exercise Guidelines

Users

Guideline Query

Fig. 1. The framework of VASP