Patent ID: 7437302

Claim:
A system for managing healthcare related information supporting operation of a healthcare enterprise, comprising: a first database including healthcare data derived from a plurality of different sources, said healthcare data including (a) information identifying a plurality of organizations, (b) location information identifying a plurality of locations in an individual organization available to accommodate a patient for different purposes, and (c) data elements common to a plurality of healthcare organizations, the common data elements comprising healthcare data codes, terms and identifiers and supporting use of consistent terminology between said plurality of organizations said healthcare data codes, terms and identifiers support identifying a medical condition and an associated service provided at a location of an organization; and a processor for intermittently receiving healthcare data update data sets to update said codes, terms and identifiers in said first database and for providing at least a portion of said update data sets including healthcare data codes, terms and identifiers in said first database to a second database employed by at least one of said plurality of organizations in response to user command, said second database also supporting user access to selectable items of healthcare data codes, terms and identifiers.