The MNT Assistant Orientation

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• This Slideshow walks you through the many
  time-saving and practice enhancing features of
  the MNT Assistant.
• Use these navigation buttons on the left and
  at the bottom to move around the slideshow.

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At any time, use this Menu to jump around the
slide show.

• Start-up
• The Control Panel
• The Patient Profile
• Session Notes
• The MNT Profile Questionnaires
• MNT Clinical Test Results
• MNT Dietary Analysis Results
• Nutrition Analysis Prescription Tools
• Nutrition Recommendations
• Intervention Behavioral Outcomes

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Start-up
The MNT Assistant is installed from a CD. The
installation puts a convenient start-up icon on
your desktop. Just click on it and the control
panel will appear. Opening the MNT Assistant
can be made more secure by adding a password or
assigning user access (single or multi-user
systems are available).
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The Control Panel
The control panel is your gateway to MNT outcomes
data management, tailored education, nutrition
assessment and convenient patient charting.
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The Control Panel
The buttons in the left column allow you to edit
and view MNT patient information.
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The Control Panel
Buttons in the right column allow you to access
administrative data for managing behavioral
objectives, physician, therapist and insurance
company information.
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The Control Panel
The Intervention Management button allows you to
view, edit or add intervention strategies,
categories and objectives. You can also create
your own charting templates for each
intervention.
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The Control Panel
This button opens a window for printing group
summary and detail reports.
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The Patient Profile
By clicking on the Patient Profiles button, you
may add or edit patient information.
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The Patient Profile
Here you enter your patients healthcare
provider, payer and personal contact information.
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The Patient Profile
By clicking the tabs you can view or edit other
important patient information.
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The Patient Profile
This drop down field lists, in alphabetical
order, the physicians in your database.
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The Patient Profile
This drop down field lists, in alphabetical
order, the physicians in your database.
Click the red ? button to add or view details
about your referring physician.
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The Patient Profile
Click on the Insurance tab to view or edit
payer information.
The information on this tab helps to track
reimbursement sources so you can easily complete
claim forms.
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The Patient Profile
Details about the insurance company can be viewed
or edited anytime.
Click on either of these red ? buttons to add
or view details about the payer you selected from
the drop-down list.
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The Patient Profile
When you are all done entering the MNT Intake
form, you can print this information for your
patients chart.
Just click on the report button to preview the
basic patient profile information.
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Session Notes
When you are ready to enter information about
this persons MNT session, click on this button
to record your data and session notes.
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Session Notes
In this form, record your intervention strategy,
time with the patient, CPT code, physicians
diagnosis, SOAP, goals, materials distributed,
nutrition Rx, next steps, profile survey and
clinical data.
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Session Notes
In this form, record your intervention strategy,
time with the patient, CPT code, physicians
diagnosis, SOAP, goals, materials distributed,
nutrition Rx, next steps, profile survey and
clinical data.
Put in your start and stop times and the program
calculates total time and units.
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Session Notes
In this form, record your intervention strategy,
time with the patient, CPT code, physicians
diagnosis, SOAP, goals, materials distributed,
nutrition Rx, next steps, profile survey and
clinical data.
Select your intervention strategy by using this
drop-down list. (You can add more to the list
with the Intervention Editor.)
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Session Notes
In this form, record your intervention strategy,
time with the patient, CPT code, physicians
diagnosis, SOAP, goals, materials distributed,
nutrition Rx, next steps, profile survey and
clinical data.
Click here to copy your intervention template
into the session notes (you can view and edit
your templates with the Intervention Editor.)
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Session Notes
In this form, record your intervention strategy,
time with the patient, CPT code, physicians
diagnosis, SOAP, goals, materials distributed,
nutrition Rx, next steps, profile survey and
clinical data.
The diagnosis also appears in a drop down list.
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Session Notes
In this form, record your intervention strategy,
time with the patient, CPT code, physicians
diagnosis, SOAP, goals, materials distributed,
nutrition Rx, next steps, profile survey and
clinical data.
To add a new diagnosis just click on the ?.
The diagnosis also appears in a drop down list.
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Session Notes
When this window is complete, click on the
Session report button and print your session
notes for charting or faxing to the referring
physician.
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Session Notes
Click on the Claims report button and preview the
information you will use for submitting a CMS
1500 claims form. Clicking this button also
prepares the CMS 1500 form for billing.
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Session Notes
By selecting one of these buttons, you can enter
data from lab reports, questionnaires, diet
analysis, and record behavioral status. You can
also prepare tailored patient handouts and other
charting documents.
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MNT Profile Questionnaires
By selecting one of these buttons, you can enter
data from lab reports, questionnaires, diet
analysis, and behavioral status. You can also
prepare tailored patient handouts and other
charting documents.
Click here to enter the responses from the MNT
Profile questionnaires, including personal and
family health history, lifestyle habits and
functional assessment results.
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MNT Profile Questionnaires
Use the tabs to select the appropriate
questionnaire. Move forward from field to field
using the tab key. Data entry is quick and easy.
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MNT Profile Questionnaires
Use the tabs to select the appropriate
questionnaire. Move forward from field to field
using the tab key. Data entry is quick and easy.
Click either of these report buttons to view and
print the MNT Patient Profile or Profile with
session notes.
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MNT Profile Questionnaires
The patients nutrition assessment, clinical data
and your charting notes are reported on one page.
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MNT Clinical Test Results
Clinical test results, such as height, weight,
blood pressures, and laboratory results collected
during or for this session may be recorded in the
Clinical Test Results window.
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MNT Clinical Test Results
After you enter the patients testing data and
goals or target values, you can print a report
suitable for patient education.
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MNT Dietary Analysis Results
The MNT Assistant provides a convenient nutrition
analysis strategy. You may uses a 24 hour recall,
diet record or food frequency. Just click on the
Dietary Analysis Results button here.
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MNT Dietary Analysis Results
Here you may enter the results of a nutrition
analysis. You may also, record food groups eaten
and supplements reported.
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MNT Dietary Analysis Results
You can easily estimate caloric requirements by
using this convenient Resting Metabolic Rate
(RMR) calculator. Just click the button on the
tool bar and this pop-up calculator appears.
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MNT Dietary Analysis Results
You can easily estimate caloric requirements by
using this convenient Resting Metabolic Rate
(RMR) calculator. Just click the button on the
tool bar and this pop-up calculator appears.
For your convenience the age, gender, height and
weight can be automatically inserted in their
proper fields.
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MNT Dietary Analysis Results
The MNT Assistant will also calculate a nutrition
analysis using a food frequency assessment
protocol.
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MNT Dietary Analysis Results
The MNT Assistant will also calculate a nutrition
analysis using a food frequency assessment
protocol.
The results of the assessment are copied into the
Dietary Analysis window with number of exchanges
and food groups automatically calculated.
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MNT Dietary Analysis Goals
Go to the Dietary and Test Result Goals window
to compute and record your nutrition prescription
and target nutrient guidelines.
Just click this button to open the goals and
recommendations window.
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MNT Dietary Analysis Goals
This window provides many time-saving automated
nutrition prescription features.
After you enter the recommended caloric intake,
certain calculations are automatic. If you enter
the fat grams then fat is calculated and visa
versa. Recommended protein and carbohydrate
values are also automated.
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MNT Dietary Analysis Goals
This window provides many time-saving automated
nutrition prescription features. .
To enter the remaining nutrients simply choose
the age and gender categories you want and then
click the Paste DRIs button. DRI
recommendations will automatically be entered for
you.
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MNT Dietary Analysis Goals
This window provides many time-saving automated
nutrition prescription features.
The MNT Assistant also helps you compute the
number of exchanges or food groups appropriate
for the dietary goals you have selected. Just
click here to automatically calculate the
exchanges according to the macronutrients youve
selected.
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MNT Dietary Analysis Goals
This window provides many time-saving automated
nutrition prescription features.
Fine tune the number of exchanges. When you
change an exchange value immediately youll see
the resulting effects on total macronutrients
here.
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Nutrition Recommendations
Following your MNT session you will be able to
create a tailored handout to reinforce your
recommendations. Select the MNT Recommendations
button to prepare your educational report.
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Nutrition Recommendations
This form will help you create a tailored
educational handout. After your patients
assessment select your recommendation for each
topic. Then print their personally tailored
recommendations.
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Nutrition Recommendations
This form will help you create a tailored
educational handout. After your patients
assessment select your recommendation for each
topic. Then print their personally tailored
recommendations.
Write your own comments and flag their
Attention by clicking the list box.
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Nutrition Recommendations
By clicking one button, you can copy a summary of
these recommendations to your session notes.
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Intervention Behavior Outcomes
Click the Interventions button to record your
behavior change intervention activities and
outcomes.
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Intervention Behavior Outcomes
Here you record the objectives covered during
your MNT session and relevant outcomes. You can
create your own objectives or use the ones
included from MNT Evidence Based Guides for
Practice. Use the Intervention Management window
to make adjustments.
You can preview and print a report listing the
objectives for this intervention by clicking this
report button.
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The Control Panel
When you are ready to close the MNT Assistant
just click the Close / Exit button. It will
return you to your desktop.
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  integral part of 21st Century healthcare.