HUMS Hospital

Requirement : Automatic Discharge Update to Diet Module
Objective
To prevent unnecessary meal preparation and reduce food wastage by ensuring that discharged patient information is automatically communicated to the diet/kitchen module in real-time.
Functional Requirement
The Diet Module shall support automatic updates based on patient discharge status to improve operational efficiency in meal planning.
1. Discharge Integration

o When a patient is marked as discharged in the Medcare/Clinicare, the system shall immediately trigger an update to the Diet Module.

2. Meal Cancellation

o Upon receiving the discharge status:

 All future meals scheduled for the patient shall be automatically canceled in the diet module.
 The dietitian and kitchen team shall be notified of the cancellation in their respective dashboards or task lists.

3. Audit Logging

o The system shall log:

 The discharge timestamp
 The user who initiated the discharge
 The time the meal cancellation was triggered in the diet module

4. Notification/Alert Mechanism

o A visual or system alert shall be provided to the kitchen team for any last-minute discharge updates that affect upcoming meals already in preparation.

5. Integration Dependency

o This feature shall depend on seamless integration between:

 ADT Module (Admission, Discharge, Transfer)
 Diet Module

o The data flow must be real-time or near real-time (within 1 minute).

Expected Outcome
This functionality ensures that meals are not prepared unnecessarily for discharged patients, reducing food wastage, saving costs, and improving communication between clinical and kitchen staff.