A method of operating a centralized healthcare management system that
includes a data translation map database and a central interpolation
server computer interconnected to a computer network. The central server
receives an initiating request from a requesting terminal for a data
record to be retrieved that satisfies a specified condition; then sends a
data record request to a source database; then receive a data record from
the source database, with the data record being in a source format. The
central server references a data translation map database for a desired
translation map, with the data translation map enabling the central
interpolation server to translate data records from a source format to a
destination format. The central interpolation server translates, in
accordance with the selected data translation map, the received data
record from the source format into a destination format suitable for
transmission to the requesting terminal. The central server then
transmits the data records in the destination format to the requesting
terminal via the network.