Diagnosis-driven electronic charting

A computer-implemented system for producing electronic health records from inputs by caregivers in a graphical user interface, the system comprising:

• a display controller configured to generate data for displaying selectable icons that represent patient diagnoses, and for displaying values for modifiers of, and that are dependent on, a selected diagnosis;
• an input processor configured to receive user selections of the diagnosis and values, wherein the input processor is configured to identify sequential user selections across the selectable icons and values for modifiers that occur by the user moving in a single direction relative to a first side of the interface toward an opposed second side of the interface without the user back-tracking, wherein, upon the sequential user selections having been received, each of the user selections is displayed concurrently with each other on the graphical user interface of the computer system in zones that are physically separated from each other;
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• a description builder programmed to apply syntactical rules based on the selected diagnosis and selected values to produce prose of a description for a medical action represented by the selected diagnosis and values,
• wherein the modifiers are each a particular parameter of the identified diagnosis.

One or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage media having stored thereon instructions, that when executed by one or more processors, perform operations comprising

• receiving, on a graphical user interface of a computer system, a user identification of a diagnosis for a patient, the user identification produced by user selection on the graphical user interface;
• displaying on the graphical user interface a plurality of selectable values for particular ones of modifiers that the computer system dynamically identifies, in response to the user identification of the diagnosis, as corresponding to the diagnosis, wherein the modifiers are each a particular parameter of the identified diagnosis;
• receiving, by the computer system and from the user, sequential user selections representing particulars ones of the values, wherein the user identification of a diagnosis and the sequential user selections are together programmed to be received by the user moving in a single direction relative to a first side of the interface toward an opposed second side of the interface without the user back-tracking;
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• generating an electronic health record representation that represents the identified diagnosis having the selected values for the one or more modifiers,
• wherein, upon the sequential user selections having been received, each of the user selections is displayed concurrently with each other on the graphical user interface of the computer system in zones that are physically separated from each other.