DOCLE
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DOCLE (Doctor Command Language),[1][2] is a non-numeric health coding and medical classification system. The DOCLE system is used[3] in Health Communication Network's electronic medical record and patient management software package, Medical Director. Medical Director is the most widely used electronic medical record system by Australian primary health care providers.[citation needed]
DOCLE has been modelled on the Linnaean biological classification system since 1995.[4] DOCLE generates clinical codes from ubiquitous health language using an algorithm, hence it is a human readable clinical coding system.[4]
The design principles of DOCLE, as enumerated by the author in the DOCLE website include:
- DOCLE codes being meaningful and intentional
- DOCLE codes are derived from ubiquitous health language
- DOCLE codes grew with evolving order and speciation of large scale structures in a linnean manner.
- DOCLE codes are designed to strap together and form clinical structures using joiner codes
- The author of DOCLE, Dr. Y Kuang Oon, has likened clinical codes to "neurons" and joiner codes as the "glia"
See also
[edit]- Electronic medical record
- ICD – International Classification of Diseases
- International Classification of Primary Care
- LOINC – Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes
- Medical classification
- Medical record
- SNOMED CT – Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms
References
[edit]- ^ Turner, Lyle (22 April 2013). "Data Quality Statement" (PDF). Monash University.
- ^ "Australian Extensions to HL7 v2 table 0396". Health Intersections Pty Ltd. 2011-12-07. Retrieved 2017-02-01.
- ^ "Practice Incentives Program (PIP) eHealth Incentive" (PDF). Health Communication Network. 3 July 2014.
- ^ a b "Ian Wilson wrote". docle.com.au. Retrieved 2017-02-01.
- "Docle coding and classification system browser". Retrieved 2008-03-29.
- "Medical Director – Product Details". Health Communication Network. Archived from the original on 2008-03-27. Retrieved 2008-04-04.