Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for searching medical codes representing medical diagnoses or procedures. One method includes: performing one or more iterations of visually selecting one of the descriptive attributes to produce search results displayed on a keyboard-like user interface, wherein the search results include other descriptive attributes and medical codes; and selecting the desired medical code from the search results, wherein the one or more iterations includes (1) an order of selecting descriptive attributes and (2) a group of descriptive attributes, and there is more than one order or more than one group of descriptive attributes that can be visually selected to produce a search result. Systems and computer readable media for executing these methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: In a computer network, services are provisioned for a user over the network, typically via a series of messages. Depending on the particular service to be provisioned many network entities may be concerned with the provision of a particular service. However, an initiator of a service request may be unaware of all the network entities concerned with a service provision request. A system which receives a single request for service provisioning from an initiator, determines each network entity corresponding to the request from a common repository of network entities, and applies the operations concerned with the service provision request at each corresponding network entity, allows a service to be provisioned without manually searching and examining the network to determine the network entities concerned with a particular service provision request.