Abstract: The present invention relates to a message structure for electronically exchanging medical information between applications utilizing disparate medical coding systems and record architectures, the message structure comprising an optional storyline keyword that sets the context for one or more subsequent statements, each of which statements comprise a genre selected from a set of genre keywords representing message categories, a subject, comprising either a natural language string of one or more words or a nested statement, and, optionally, one or more parametrized predicates comprising a context joiner selected from a set of context joiner keywords, and a parameter comprising a natural language string of one or more words or a nested statement.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for implementing a medical informatics system. The method comprises the step of creating one or more named medical objects having attributes and behaviours, each object being implemented as an object in an object oriented programming paradigm, a function in a functional programming paradigm or an equivalent entity in a hybrid functional/object oriented programming paradigm, wherein the or each medical object name is derived from an algorithmic transformation of a description key assigned to a corresponding medical concept in a medical coding or classification system into an explicit health code, the named medical object having the attributes and behaviours of the corresponding medical concept, the composition of explicit health codes and medical objects derived therefrom being suitable for computer representation of medical narratives.

Abstract: A medical record management system administrator comprising: (a) a data receiver to selectively receive one or more medical files pertaining to a first patient, each file represented in a medical scripting language having predetermined syntactical and semantic constructs; (b) a recorder to record and store each medical file of the patient in terms of the predetermined syntactical and semantic constructs; and (c) a query module to receive a query from a predefined source which has been assigned selective access to the recorded material in terms of the predetermined syntactical and semantic constructs, and to transmit relevant recorded material to that source.

Abstract: A unitary machine parsable language for use in data representation and problem solving in knowledge based services having a vocabulary of terms which derive from a natural human language to facilitate ease of comprehension by humans based upon a definition of the context of an item of information. A method of increasing the effectiveness of a knowledge based service consultation comprising splitting the consultation into at least a pre-consultation phase, a consultation phase and a post-consultation phase wherein information collected during earlier phases is electronically checked during the post-consultation phase.

Abstract: A method of implementing non-numerical spread sheets for the medical and legal domains using a computer-assisted iterative problem solving technique which starts from initial non-numerical data and develops possible solutions within a framework of an interrelation ship among pre-selected non-numerical data which are divided into a plurality of mutually exclusive categories differentiated according to readiness for decision making, including the steps of: displaying on a video display, a work sheet having a plurality of cells each corresponding to one of said mutually exclusive categories for displaying the non-numerical data; entering initial non-numerical data into respective cells in the work sheet; selecting a query designating at least a first cell in the work sheet with the initial non-numerical data as an input and requesting related non-numerical data for at least one cell of the plurality of cells in the work sheet; identifying non-numerical data for the at least one cell that is related to non-numeri