Data acquisition system

A system for acquiring and providing particular patient medical record data to a user, comprising:

• at least one repository of patient medical record data together with information representing a time associated with acquisition of said medical record data;
• a source of configuration data identifying a particular time for a particular patient;
• and
• an acquisition processor for accessing said at least one repository to acquire patient medical record data associated with said particular time in response to user command to access medical record data of said particular patient.

A system supporting navigability and interoperability between different executable applications, comprising:

• at least one repository including a plurality of different types of data together with information representing a time associated with data within a particular type, said plurality of different types of data being associated with a plurality of different entities;
• first and second different executable applications having access to configuration data identifying a particular time associated with a particular type of data and a particular entity;
• and
• said first and second different executable applications access said at least one repository to acquire a particular type of data associated with said particular time in response to user command to access a particular type of data associated with a particular entity.

A method for acquiring and providing entity related data to a user, comprising the activities of:

• storing, in at least one repository, entity related data together with information representing an index value associated with acquisition of said entity related data;
• receiving user entered configuration data identifying a particular index value;
• and
• accessing said at least one repository to acquire entity related data associated with said particular index value in response to user command to access entity related data.

A method for acquiring and providing particular patient medical record data to a user, comprising the activities of:

• storing, in at least one repository, patient medical record data together with information representing a time associated with acquisition of said medical record data;
• receiving user entered configuration data identifying a particular time for a particular patient;
• and
• accessing said at least one repository to acquire patient medical record data associated with said particular time in response to user command to access medical record data of said particular patient.