System and method for meal distribution and dietary attention
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1. An automated method of taking and fulfilling patient meal orders at an institution, comprising taking the patient'"'"'s meal order;
- and tracking the patient'"'"'s accumulations of dietary constituents based upon patient meal orders.
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An integrated computerized system, for use particularly in a facility providing menu selected meals to patients, provides for ordering a meal appropriate to a specific patient, determining the status and whereabouts of the meal prior to its delivery to the patient, and tracking the dietary intake of the patient at the facility over time.
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1. An automated method of taking and fulfilling patient meal orders at an institution, comprising
taking the patient'"'"'s meal order; - and
tracking the patient'"'"'s accumulations of dietary constituents based upon patient meal orders. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An automated method of taking and fulfilling patient meal orders at an institution, comprising
taking the patient'"'"'s meal order; -
processing the patient'"'"'s meal order; and
tracking the status of the patient'"'"'s meal order. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An automated system for monitoring the dietary intake status of a patient at an institution, comprising
a database of patient information, including patient location and patient dietary status; -
a display showing patient dietary status for a plurality of patients by patient location; and
a user interface to select a patient of interest from the plurality of patients displayed. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. An automated system for managing the meal order and dietary intake status of a patient at an institution, comprising
database of patient information, including at least one diet type designated for a patient; -
a database of meal menu items, comprising, for at least some of such menu items, at least one diet type appropriate for such menu item;
a user interface to specify meals for a patient at the institution comprising selection of presented meal menu items from the meal menu item database;
wherein the presentation of a meal menu item in the interface is determined by the at least one diet type designated for the patient and the diet types for which the menu item is appropriate.
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28. An automated system for monitoring the meal order status of a patient at an institution, comprising
a database of patient information, including patient location and meal order status; -
a display showing patient meal order status for a plurality of patients by patient location and a user interface to select a patient of interest from the plurality of patients displayed. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32)
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