Every order in MedMeals moves through six live statuses, from placed to cleared. A delivery OTP confirms the tray reached the right bed, a second OTP confirms it was collected, and a QR code on each order lets staff update its status with one scan.
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In most hospitals the kitchen's responsibility ends at its door and the ward's begins at the bed, and nothing records the journey in between. Trays wait on trolleys in corridors, reach a bed after the patient has been moved, or sit on a bedside table while the patient is away for a scan.
When a family says the food never came, there is nothing to check it against. Used trays stay in rooms for hours because nobody is told to collect them, and the kitchen starts the next meal short of trays.
Every order carries its own status, OTPs and QR code, so each tray can be followed and confirmed at every handoff.
Every order moves through placed, accepted, preparing, ready, delivered and cleared, and each change is pushed in real time to the people who need to know.
A one-time code confirms the handover at the bed before the order is marked delivered, showing the tray reached the patient it was meant for.
A separate clearance OTP confirms that the used tray has been collected from the patient's room, and only then is the order closed.
Kitchen and delivery staff scan the order's QR code to move it to its next status, instead of looking it up on a screen or calling it in.
Patients, kitchen, nursing and admin are notified when an order changes state, so the ward knows when a tray is ready and when it has arrived.
Attendees and families follow the order in the app, from the moment it is placed until the tray is cleared.
Status changes and OTP confirmations are logged, so a question about a late or missing meal is answered from the record, not from memory.
The order is placed from a bedside tablet, the app or the admin desk, and carries its QR code and OTPs from the start.
The kitchen accepts the order, by hand or through auto-accept, and the family sees the change in the app.
Staff move the order to preparing and then to ready from the queue, or with a scan of its QR code.
At the bed, the delivery OTP confirms the handover and the order is marked delivered.
When the used tray is collected, the clearance OTP confirms it and the order is complete.
The order screen in the app puts the delivery OTP and the clearance OTP at the top, then a live timeline of the six stages with a short note for each, down to the tray being collected from the room.
Live order tracking with both OTPs
Hospital trays travel further than restaurant plates: along corridors, into lifts and across wings. A QR scan at each handoff and an OTP at the bed turn that walk into a chain of confirmed steps, with alerts to the ward as the tray moves.
One tray, one order, one bed
| Area | On paper | With MedMeals |
|---|---|---|
| Leaving the kitchen | No record once the trolley leaves | Marked ready in the queue or with a QR scan |
| Handover | Tray left on the table, with no confirmation | Delivery OTP confirmed at the bed |
| Missing meal complaints | Staff memory against the family's word | Order status and OTP on record |
| Tray collection | Used trays left in rooms for hours | Clearance OTP when the tray is collected |
| Ward updates | Nurses call the kitchen to ask | Alerts as each order changes state |
| Family | No idea when the food will come | Live status in the app |
Each handover is confirmed with the order's own OTP, so a tray at the wrong bed is caught at the bedside instead of after the meal.
Delivered and cleared are both confirmed by OTP and logged, so every tray has an answer to where it went.
Clearance is its own step with its own OTP, so used trays are collected instead of forgotten in rooms.
Live status and alerts answer the question of where a tray is, before anyone picks up the phone.
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Meal tray tracking follows each patient's tray from the kitchen to the bed and back. In MedMeals every order moves through placed, accepted, preparing, ready, delivered and cleared, with an OTP to confirm delivery and another to confirm the tray was collected.
Each order has a one-time delivery code. When the tray reaches the bed, the code confirms the handover and the order is marked delivered, which shows the tray reached the patient it was meant for, not just the ward.
Collecting the used tray is a separate job, often done by different staff at a different time. The clearance OTP confirms the tray has been collected, so the order is only closed once the room is clear.
Kitchen and delivery staff scan it to update the order's status in one step, for example when the tray is ready, instead of searching for the order on a screen.
Patients, kitchen, nursing and admin receive real-time alerts as an order changes state. Families and attendees can also follow the live status in the app.
Yes. Status changes and OTP confirmations stay with the order, and audit logs can be exported, so a question about a late or missing meal can be checked against the record.
Book a demo and we will place an order, move it through every status and close it with both OTPs, the way it would run on your wards.
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