A point-of-care touch/click entry system can be used to replace and/or augment standard dictation transcription models in medical record systems (which comprise institution-centric data). Key word entry can better standardized medical record display, can be linked directly to diagnostic and billing codes to automate billing thus decreasing payers claims of fraud and can be used to insert data variables directly into relational databases to improve outcome analysis. In total the “clinical operating system (COS) and clinical information system (CIS) can quickly and accurately produce “longitudinal” lifetime medical records (which comprise patient-centric data). The longitudinal medical record can be used in accordance with medical record systems to connect patients, providers, pharmacies, clinics, hospitals, payers, and producers through a secure private network that operates in real-time at the point of care on-line or off-line.
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