This invention relates to the field of patient health care. In particular,
it relates to medical informatics, and to systems and methods for
recording medical transactions. A system for recording medical
transactions is disclosed, the system comprising distinct and
multi-linguistic representation layers, allowing the de novo composition
and construction of medical transaction codes; including a user interface
including means for inputting medical transactions in a semiotic form
one, the semiotic form one input being a free form-type,
abbreviation-oriented natural language textual input, a transaction
parser-coder configured to parse said semiotic form one input and to
convert it into coded medical transactions in a semiotic form two output,
the transaction codes composed and constructed de novo, the semiotic form
two output embodying high level machine-parseable computer language
statements comprehensible to a high certainty level by human users, means
for evoking a display of system reflection in the form of coded medical
transactions in said semiotic form two and system-rated confidence levels
representing the match between a code and correspondence with perceived
user intent, means for receiving user selection input for verifying a
selected coded medical transaction, and a transaction mapper configured
to convert a semiotic form two input into a semiotic form three
transaction by mapping the selected coded transaction into data row in a
relational database to render the transaction data amenable to structured
query language processing. There is further disclosed a computer-based
method for the management of medical transactions, including storing each
medical transaction as a transaction code in a data row in a database
table, each transaction code including a genre key relating to the nature
of the transaction, and including providing storage ledgers for each
genre, such that each transaction can be retrieved and displayed as an
entry in a storage ledger in accordance with its genre key. This allows
medical transactions to be treated akin to accounting transactions,
signifying credits and debits in defined transaction ledgers.
