For hospitals and health systems
Food logging for hospital patient apps.
BiteRight helps a hospital care team see what outpatients eat between appointments, and act when a day goes off plan instead of finding out at the next visit. Patients log meals by photo, voice or text inside the hospital's own patient app, the BiteRight API returns the recognised foods and nutrient estimates, and the patient is alerted when a day crosses a sugar, carbohydrate, fat or protein limit the care team set. Dietitians can review the meals in the BiteRight dietitian portal.
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What happens between appointments?
Outpatient care for diabetes, IBS, kidney disease or recovery after surgery depends on what patients eat at home. Most of that is invisible to the care team until the next visit, and paper food diaries are incomplete or forgotten.
Building food recognition and a nutrient database yourself is a big project. BiteRight adds both to your patient app, and the app keeps its own design.
How it works, step by step.
Example: Example Health, a fictional hospital.
- Step 1
The care team sets a limit
A patient in a diabetes outpatient programme gets a daily sugar limit of 30 g in the hospital app.
- Step 2
The patient photographs lunch
They take a photo of a slice of spinach pie in the app they already use for appointments.
- Step 3
BiteRight returns the estimates
The API recognises the dish and returns its estimated weight, ingredients, carbohydrate, protein and sugar.
- Step 4
The day crosses the limit
The hospital app shows the meal in its own design and alerts the patient that today's sugar is above the limit.
Your plan
Daily sugar limit: 30 g
Set by your care team · example value
Logged before lunch: 27 g
Lunch
Logged with a photo
Spinach pie, 1 slice
- Carbs
- 24 g
- Protein
- 11 g
- Sugar
- 6 g
Today's sugar is above the limit your care team set.
Behind the scenes
BiteRight API
Receives the meal, returns food and nutrient estimates, and flags when the day crosses a limit your organisation set.
5. The day crosses the limit, so your app alerts
What BiteRight gives your team.
Food logging without redesigning your app
Photo, voice and text logging through the API, shown in your own screens
Nutrition API
Targets set by the care team
Daily maximums for sugar, carbohydrate and fat, and a daily protein minimum, with an alert when one is crossed
API and dietitian portal
Dietitian review between visits
A workspace to review each patient's logged meals, rules and alerts, with export of meal logs
Dietitian portal
Patients who don't speak English
Arabic input for photo, voice and text; app interface in English, French, Arabic and Spanish
API and app
Local food in the Gulf
A Bahraini food-composition database and localised Middle Eastern dishes, alongside 2.5M+ food records from national databases
Food data
Procurement and data protection review
Oracle Cloud hosting, regional hosting, encryption in transit and at rest, and a DPA
Platform
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Regional hosting
- Encrypted in transit and at rest
- DPA for business customers
- Arabic and English input
- 2.5M+ food records
Read more about the nutrition API, the dietitian portal and how data is protected.
What BiteRight does not do.
- Nutrient values are estimates, not measurements. Your clinical team decides how they are used.
- BiteRight does not diagnose or treat conditions, and limits should be set by a qualified clinician.
- BiteRight does not monitor inpatient meal trays and does not connect to electronic health records.
Questions we hear.
Does the hospital app have to change its design?
No. Your app keeps its own screens, branding and flows. It sends the meal to the BiteRight API and shows the results however your team chooses.
Who sets the daily limits?
Your organisation or your clinicians can set daily maximums for sugar, carbohydrate and fat and a daily minimum for protein. Patients can also set their own limits in the BiteRight app.
Can patients log meals in Arabic?
Yes. The API accepts Arabic for photo, voice and text logging, and the food data includes a Bahraini food-composition database and localised Middle Eastern dishes.
Can a dietitian review what patients logged?
Yes. The BiteRight dietitian portal shows each connected patient's logged meals with foods, servings and estimated nutrients, highlights entries that break a rule, and can export meal logs.
Where is patient data hosted?
BiteRight runs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, hosting can be regional, and a data processing agreement (DPA) is available for business customers.
How do we get access?
The API is available to approved partners. Request a demo and the team will discuss your programme, data requirements and sandbox access.
Bring meal logging into your patient app.
Tell us about your patient programme and the conditions it supports. Sandbox access is available on request.
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