More efficiency, lower costs with the FoodScanner

The financial challenges in everyday hospital life are not only caused by rising costs, but also by increasingly strict regulatory requirements. National and international regulations require hospitals to have structured nutrition management, regular documentation and transparent processes. Compliance with these standards causes additional work - or opens up potential savings with the right tools.

Documentation time savings

Manual nutritional documentation costs an average of 9-20 minutes per patient per day. Extrapolated, this means several thousand hours per year are lost in paper logs or manual data entry. The FoodScanner automates this process. All meals are recorded digitally, compared with the patient data and archived in an audit-proof manner. This not only saves clinics considerable personnel costs, but also fulfills the documentation requirements that are increasingly demanded by authorities and certification bodies (e.g. ISO, DGE standards).

Saving therapy time

Dietitians and nutritional therapists often spend more than a third of their working time collecting, checking and processing nutritional data. This time is not available for the actual care of at-risk patients. The FoodScanner provides structured, complete and immediately available data so that professionals can invest their resources in targeted therapy. This increases the quality of care, improves patient outcomes and reduces complications that would otherwise result in high follow-up costs.

Reduction of food waste

Up to 30 percent of all meals served in European hospitals end up unused in waste. This not only results in direct costs for food and disposal, but also has a considerable impact on the environment and image. The EU and Switzerland have introduced binding reduction targets for food waste, which explicitly include hospitals. If the voluntary reduction is not sufficient, stricter measures are planned from 2026. The FoodScanner makes food waste measurable, deviations are detected in real time and kitchen processes can be optimized. Hospitals not only save money, but also meet regulatory requirements and sustainability standards.

DRG and Coding Revenues

A significant proportion of cases of malnutrition go unrecognized in hospitals or are not coded correctly. Studies show that around 20-30% of inpatients are malnourished, but often only 5-10% are coded and billed. As a result, hospitals lose millions in revenue. The FoodScanner detects malnutrition at an early stage, documents it in an audit-proof manner and creates the basis for complete and correct billing according to the DRG system. This enables clinics to increase their income without placing an additional burden on staff.

Addressing the biggest cost traps with the FoodScanner.

The FoodScanner addresses these challenges directly:

- Documentation time is reduced to a minimum thanks to automatic recording.

- Therapy time is used more effectively as nutritional therapists have structured data immediately available.

- Food waste is made measurable and systematically reduced - a contribution to cost reduction and sustainability goals.

- DRG and coding revenues are realized because malnutrition is detected early and documented correctly.

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