A comprehensive database system employs common medical terms, vocabularies
and identifiers in 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. A system for managing healthcare data
including codes, terms and identifiers supports operation of a healthcare
enterprise. The system includes a first database including healthcare
data including elements common to a plurality of healthcare organizations
and derived from a plurality of different sources. The healthcare data
common elements support use of consistent terminology between the
plurality of organizations. A processor provides at least a portion of
the healthcare data in the first database to a second database employed
by at least one of the plurality of organizations in response to user
command. The second database also supports use of user selectable items
of healthcare data. An interface processor intermittently receives
healthcare data updates for incorporation in the first database.