Design of Nutrition Assessment of Hospitalized Patients Based on Web in Hospital of Universitas Sumatera Utara

Abstract

Hospital of Universitas Sumatera Utara has some services which are integrated with hospital management information system, but nutrition service has not been included yet. Actually, the nutrition service activities consist of nutrition assessment as well as diet orders of hospitalized patients which been done manually that could cause error. The aim of the study is to make an application of nutrition assessment and diet orders of hospitalized patients based on web, so it can minimize the error. The name of the application is "E-NRD" made with Waterfall method. The study design was research and development and was done for 8 months. The steps of the study were dieticians and nurses interviews, data collection, application establishment, dieticians and nurses workshops of application, and finally the implementation of the application. Hopefully "E-NRD" as a part of hospital management information system could improve the quality of nutrition service in hospital of Universitas Sumatera Utara.