Diets

The HOSP IT diet management module manages all information regarding patient diets, including menu printing, patients' meal choices and restrictions set by doctors orders. In addition, it supports the logistics of food preparation and distribution including the creation and maintenance of menus and menu planning. HOSP IT provides the tools necessary to accurately calculate dietary intake requirements and provides dieticians relevant information to ensure that all meals are cross-checked and verified, before being server to patients.

Flexible short and long term menus planning according to a specific menu cycle.

Menu items can be categorized by name, diet type, menu type or food category, this speeds up menu ordering.

Automatic compatibility checking against patient food allergies to basic food ingredients.

Support for de-centralized order entry in the room by physicians and nursing staff or centralized entry by dieticians who receive the order.

Helpful notification to kitchen of new admissions, discharges, color coded transfers and order updates.

Integrated automatic charging process of menu items.

Harris-Benedict equation for calorie calculation on standard/metric units.

Summary preparation reports.

Meal orders for visitors can be entered in the room and processed by the kitchen.

Integrated with Purchases and Resource administration modules.