In response to the ever changing health care environment, several areas within healthcare facilities have automated to keep up with the times. Computer programs have been installed to assist in the demand for better information management practices. One area which has been relatively excluded from this movement to date is food service departments. Food Service Departments are challenged to provide nutritious, tasty meals at a relatively low cost. Often, meal preparation processes are very labor intensive and require detailed information tracking.
Several opportunities lie to streamlines efficiencies and costs by automating systems.
Dietary Information Tracking Information management systems have assisted in all types of environments to ensure data is selected, sorted and distributed. In a food service department, the data becomes all of the meal specific information which is often manually collected and distributed within the department for meal service. The larger the scope of your food service department, the more critical the need to track information. Some of your guests must follow a low cholesterol diet. Some have religious or cultural concerns limiting the types of the foods they will consume.