System for adaptively identifying data for storage

A system for adaptively identifying data to be stored in a document processing system comprising:

• an identification processor for automatically intermittently examining a plurality of file directories to identify a plurality of new stored data objects within at least one of said plurality of file directories, said identified new stored data objects being associated with a particular medical entity and having been previously absent from said at least one of said plurality of file directories;
• a decision processor for identifying a particular new stored data object of said plurality of new stored data objects based on predetermined object identification criteria, said particular new stored data object containing associated data indexing information;
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• a communication processor for providing communication among said identification processor, said decision processor and said document processing system for processing said identified particular new stored data object containing data indexing information with a first executable application differently from other identified new stored data objects without data indexing information using a different second executable application, by automatically deriving data index information from said particular new stored data object in response to said identification of said particular new stored data object.