Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for providing decision making support in healthcare. A user is able to provide healthcare data, including qualifier, indications, body part modifiers, body parts, modality modifiers, modalities, procedures and protocols. A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided to allow procedure rules to be created by selecting components of the healthcare data. The procedure rules identify and recommend appropriate procedures based on user input. The GUI also allows for global rules, body part rules, modality rules and modality modifier rules to be created; these rules are contra-indicators to procedures. Upon establishing the rules, a physician can enter data about a patient into the system, and the system will use the rules to return one or more appropriate procedures.