Ranked as one of the nation’s top 10 hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, UCSF Medical Center was recently selected as the winner of Computrition’s 2011 Prodigy Award. It is comprised of three complexes and operates three retail outlets. Since partnering with Computrition in 2003, UCSF Medical Center has enhanced ...
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Patient Safety – Don’t Forget Food!
You’ve probably heard many times about the 1999 Institute of Medicine report, To Err is Human. It includes estimates on the number of patients harmed each year by medical mistakes, with alarming numbers approaching six digits. This report was part of the impetus for President George W. Bush to issue an ...
Customer in Focus: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
In light of the successes that have been exhibited by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in recent years, and being ...
A Chef’s Mission in Healthcare Foodservice
It always strikes me a little bit odd when someone asks me what I do and their eyes light up as soon as I mention “I’m a Chef”. But my answer to the ...
Computrition Celebrates National Nutrition Month®
When we think of March, we associate St Patty’s Day or Mardi Gras; however this month represents yet another significant occasion…National Nutrition Month®! The National Nutrition Month® campaign was created by the American Dietetic Association as a way to focus attention ...
Becoming a Nutrition Informatician
Two years ago when I wrote my President’s Page in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association (ADA) on the topic of nutrition informatics, few of my colleagues had heard the term, informatics, and most were asking what exactly it meant. Today, although familiarity with the term (and its emerging unique practice area ...
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