Recording dietary preferences and food allergies to display on Appointment Management

We’ve developed a section in Edit Patient where the patient’s dietary requirements can be set. Up to four diets can be selected from drop-down lists that then display on the Appointments page with a blue apple icon. If you hover over the apple, you’ll see the diets needed for that patient. It also shows any food allergies that have been recorded in Conditions and Allergies. These food requirements can be printed on the patient list by using the green pdf icon on Manage Appointments.


Manage Appointments will show three different apple colours:

• Blue - dietary requirements have been set in Edit Patient and the patient may or may not have food allergies recorded.
• Orange - Dietary requirements have NOT been set in Edit Patient, but the patient has food allergies recorded.
• Grey - the patient has NO special dietary requirements or food allergies recorded.
• Blank - No dietary requirements have been set in Edit Patient and there are no food allergies recorded.

The diet apple also shows on the Record Summary with hover text to view the food allergies and diets.


IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
If your organisation already uses software to record the dietary requirements of your patients, this new feature will not integrate with the existing software. In this instance it may be best not to turn on the feature in Organisation Preferences. For those orgs where Episoft has integrated to the PAS we do not recommend turning on this feature as there needs to be one source of truth for patient diets for safety reasons.


If you would like to use the new diets, please let me know and we will run an overnight script to gather all your patients food allergies into Edit Patient. The following day, you’ll be able to set each patient’s diet in Edit Patient. We will only turn this feature on for those organisations that request it.