SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING HEALTHCARE RELATED INFORMATION, METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING HEALTHCARE RELATED INFORMATION

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a comprehensive database system employing common medical terms, vocabularies and identifiers for identifying organizational characteristics as well as location availability and suitability for delivering services by a particular physician to a patient with particular medical conditions via a user friendly display interface.

SOLUTION: A system for providing healthcare related information comprises a database incorporating information identifying an encompassing organization and multiple constituent organizations of the encompassing organization including a constituent organization type identifier. The data base incorporates location information identifying a plurality of locations in a constituent organization available to accommodate the patient for different purposes and including a location type identifier. An interface processor employs the database in providing a user with location information related to a particular constituent organization in response to a user command.

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