Check out these NIRDs: Nutrition Informatics Registered Dietitians! They are creatively using technology to advance the dietetics profession! Are you a NIRD?

1. Nutrition Informatics RD:
Using Informatics to Enhance the Profession
She’s a NIRD! - Certification Software Evaluation
Coordinator for commercially
available software systems
designed to assess the new
National School Lunch Program
meal patterns.
- Integrated 2010 Dietary
Guidelines for Americans and the
2008 Physical Activity Guidelines
for Americans into an online food
and physical activity
Angela Leone, MS, RD tracker, SuperTracker: My
Foods, My Fitness, My Health
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2. Nutrition Informatics RD:
Using Informatics to Enhance the Profession
She’s a NIRD!
– I use Grouptext to text our RDs and
clients.
– During conferences, I download the
slide deck on my iPad using DocAs. I
then pull this up at the session and
write notes on the slide deck. This
eliminates me having to print the
handout.
– I open documents that need my
signature, using SignNow. Then I sign
it and send it. No need to print!
Anna de Jesus, MBA, RD
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3. Nutrition Informatics RD:
Using Informatics to Enhance the Profession
He’s a NIRD! - Director of Nutrition
Informatics for Computrition
- Past Chair for the Nutrition
InformaticsCommittee
- Currently completing a
Masters of Biomedical
Informatics from OHSU.
Marty Yadrick, - Academy President 2008-
MS, MBA, RD, FADA 2009
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4. Nutrition Informatics RD:
Using Informatics to Enhance the Profession
She’s a NIRD!
– Project leader for Computrition Diet
Office Software implementation
– Completed 10x10 AMIA ADA
certification.
– Built long term care electronic care
plan in Answers on Demand
– Created department’s Nutrition
Education Website.
Janel Welch,
MS, MPA, RD, CDN
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5. Nutrition Informatics RD:
Using Informatics to Enhance the Profession
She’s a NIRD! – Head Dietitian for ShopWell.com, a free
nutrition education website and iPhone
app that helps build
personalized, healthy grocery
lists, making food label reading easier.
– Manage nutrition information and check
for accuracy
– Write, review, and/or edit our
messaging, features, suggested
Marci Harnischfeger, grocery lists
MS, RD
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6. Nutrition Informatics RD:
Using Informatics to Enhance the Profession
She’s a NIRD! – Contributing author to Academy’s EHR
Toolkit
– Contributed to the development of an
electronic “Nutrition Management
Report” for RD/DTR work efficiencies
– Lead project team to implement a diet
order interface between EHR and
dietary software system
– Integrated Nutrition Diagnosis into EHR
Sherri Jones,
MS, MBA, RD, LDN
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7. She’s a NIRD!
- Used the power of the Internet to
create Nutrition411.com, a global
nutrition resource library offering
2500+ free resources for
dietitians
- Member of the Academy's
Nutrition Informatics Committee
Nancy Collins,
PhD, RD, LD/N, FAPWCA
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8. He’s a NIRD! – Academy contractor working to classify
IDNT into SNOMED CT and LOINC
– Member Nutrition Care Process
Standardized Language Committee
June 2008 – May 2011
– Designer/support for Intermountain
Healthcare’s nutrition electronic care
module – NuCard2
Curt Calder, – A contributing author to the Academy's
MBA, RD, CD EHR Toolkit
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9. – Founder of Healthy Life and Nutrition
She’s a NIRD! which uses Sensibalance Programs-
Lite and Pro versions.
– Highlights include a full nutrition and
fitness platform, food journaling, goal
tracking, sample menus, and
community social board for members
– Sensibalance App - Apps available in
the ITunes and Android market. The
app complements the Sensibalance
Melanie Rubery, programs and syncs all information to
MS, RD, LD, CLT one's online profile
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10. She’s a NIRD! – Clinical Analyst for the IT Department
at the University Medical Center of El
Paso in El Paso, Texas
– IT Liaison for the Food and Nutrition
Services Department, provides
technical support with Dietary system:
Computrition
– Enrolled in American Medical
Informatics Association (AMIA) 10X10
Michelle Salas, RD, LD Online course April 2012 - October
2012
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11. She’s a NIRD! – Genesis Healthcare uses electronic
nutrition assessment that incorporates
the NCP is used in 225 skilled nursing
facilities.
– With the click of the mouse, we can
generate a list of all patients at
nutritional risk.
– Technology allows us to remotely review
the chart of any the 26,000 patients in
Nancy Munoz, our centers on any given day.
DCN, MHA, RD, LDN
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12. Nutrition Informatics RD:
Using Informatics to Enhance the Profession
He’s a NIRD! - As an EHR System Analyst, he uses
technology on a daily basis to design
workflow tools for providers that function
as well as they look.
- Uses iCloud to keep iPad and Laptop in
sync keeps me on time for appointments
- Learning to test software was as simple
as applying the same attention to detail
that Dietitians use every day to calculate
energy requirements based on
Kcals/kg/min.
John Snyder, DTR, RD
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13. Nutrition Informatics RD:
Using Informatics to Enhance the Profession
She’s a NIRD! - RD Informatics Team at Tampa
General Hospital
- Led conversion in EMR
deployment using a reproducible
stepwise model
- Poster Session presented at
Florida Dietetic Association
Annual Symposium
Beverly J.D. Hernandez,
PhD, RD, LD/N
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14. Nutrition Informatics RD:
Using Informatics to Enhance the Profession
She’s a NIRD! - Senior Clinical Analyst building
orders and reports for the
Electronic Medical Record
- Provide support for RD's on
electronic processes
- Website Manager for
EatrightMemphis.org
- AMIA and the Academy 10 x 10
Cathy course
Welsh, MS, RD
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15. Nutrition Informatics RD:
Using Informatics to Enhance the Profession
She’s a NIRD! - Assist clients in designing
their Room Service software
to meet the needs of their
operation
- Assist clients in the design of
interfaces between the EHR
and their Nutrition software
- Assist clients in design of
their production/purchasing
software for effectiveness and
Della Rieley Dunbar, efficiency
MS, RD
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16. Nutrition Informatics RD:
Using Informatics to Enhance the Profession
She’s a NIRD! – Created Jeatwell.com, a free
unique tool for patients to use
to make quick and easy
decisions when dining at a
restaurant
– This website/blog can be used
on smart phones and has
every combination of diet
restrictions with over 100
restaurants, including chains
Judy Byler, RD, MS and local places
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