A system and method for rapid entry of past medical diagnoses allows for
development of specific, clinically relevant diagnoses from a simple
input medication through use of a developed database that maps an input
medication to a specific medical diagnosis through an intermediate
indications data set. Input medications are normalized to their generic
or chemical name and the normalized medication data is associated to an
intermediate diagnosis through a medications indications listing
contained in a database. Each medication develops a short list of
possible specific and/or macro-diagnoses (indications) consistent with
the medications and a selected indication is concept-matched to a
specific medical diagnosis in order to develop a proper diagnosis in
clinically meaningful terms, from a concept-mapped portion of the
database. The concept-mapped portion is developed by grouping medical
terms into clinically meaningful groups and developing pointers within
those groups between identified diseases and a developed indications
taxonomy, itself developed by forming a composite of FDA-approved and
non-FDA approved indications with respect to particular normalized
medications.