Abstract: Systems and methods for generating preferred diet plans for a patient are presented. Based on diagnoses of the patient, a set of standard diet plans may be retrieved from a plurality of standard diet plans of a diet plan database. Each standard diet plan preferably corresponds to at least one of the diagnoses of the patient. From the set, one of the standard diet plans is selected based on at least one nutritional requirement of the patient. The selected diet plan includes a set of food ingredients from which one or more food ingredients to be replaced are identified. Subsequently, based on a nutritional value of the food ingredient to be replaced, one or more alternate food ingredients are selected. Finally, in the selected diet plan, the alternate food ingredients are substituted for the food ingredient to be replaced.

Abstract: Patient characteristics as well as cost and quality measures may be used to determine a suitable care plan for a patient having a particular medical condition from a collection of care plans. The patient characteristics may be used to initially filter the care plans to meet basic topical characteristics of the patient such as gender or age. Care plans may be further filtered based on other characteristics such as insurance applicability, performance measures, and cost characteristics of specific care plans. Care plans passing through the various filters may be provided to a user such that pertinent information such as cost, frequency, and effectiveness of care for each filtered plan may be displayed. A user then may have sufficient information available to select an appropriate care plan for the specific patient.