Two important milestones occurred in Long Term Care Management in 2008.
- Recognition of the importance of food and nutrition service’s involvement in the Total Patient Care Process
- The inclusion of Dining Management in the total IT environment throughout the facility/enterprise.
In the world of technology and high speed communication it just doesn’t make sense to ‘departmentalize’ data. The result is ‘Silos’ of information where each department gathers and enters the same data that another department already has. Here are just a few examples:
- Accounting Systems
- Phamacy Systems
- Medical Records Systems
- Dietary Management Systems
Why duplicate all those records and take a chance on at least some of them ‘out of sync’ with the others? We are frankly thrilled that the day has finally arrived when the Dietary/Dining Services Department is no longer considered an ‘island’ within the facility.
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