A Personal Health and Fitness Assistant

The purpose of this proposed system is to develop an internet-based system to provide individual service members with easily accessible, tailored guidance concerning their personal fitness for duty and deployment. The system will contain an attractive,balanced, imaginative package of instruction and interactive aids for maintaining personal fitness. The web site will be interactively based on user-entered information, and provide individual users with personal feedback and guidance. The content of theweb site must include diet, weight control and exercise information. Other content areas may include body mass index, immunizations, self-administered diet supplements, cardiovascular risk and warning signs, injury avoidance, unhealthy habits, stressmanagement, and sleep improvement. The web site will be designed to sustain long-term, independent usage by service members of all ranks. Privacy and security will be important design considerations in the development of the site. . Also, the site willconform to the DOD Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative's Sharable Courseware Reference Model (SCORM) specification. The system will be platform independent and fully compatible with DOD Internet and intranet systems.The Department of Defensespends millions of dollars each year as a result of problems resulting from individual weight control and general fitness issues. Creating a generally available Internet system that enables each individual service member to manage their physical fitnessand to alter their personal habits to maintain optimum fitness should significantly reduce this cost. Soneticom plans to use the Personal Health and Fitness Assistant web site development to enter the arena of web-enabled enterprise health applications.Soneticom envisions the development of the web site content, technology, and user interfaces as a valuable foundation for the future development of similar systems that would deliver health and medical related services to end users. This vision includesSoneticom developing hardware devices and providing system integration of existing technologies to deliver complete enterprise level systems.