Patent ID: 7788111

Claim:
A system for providing healthcare related information, comprising: at least one database incorporating, (a) information identifying an encompassing organization and a plurality of constituent organizations of said encompassing organization including a constituent organization type identifier, (b) location information identifying a plurality of locations in a constituent organization available to accommodate a patient for different purposes and including a location type identifier, and (c) medical terminology including codes, terms and identifiers supporting consistency of terminology used between said plurality of constituent organizations in identifying a medical condition and an associated service provided at a location of a constituent organization; and an interface processor for employing said at least one database in translating codes, terms or identifiers to be compatible with terminology used by a particular constituent organization in searching data of said particular constituent organization to identify a location of said particular constituent organization providing a particular service associated with a particular medical condition in response to user command to provide location specific healthcare data and said interface processor processes information derived from said at least one database to provide processed location specific healthcare information to a destination comprising a customized update file containing at least one of, (a) a particular code set, (b) particular identifiers and (c) particular terms desired by a destination system.