1. A healthcare dictionary system providing a term repository accessible for use in supporting the operation of a healthcare enterprise, comprising: an input processor for acquiring healthcare transaction message data in at least one of a plurality of different data formats; a data processor for, parsing said acquired transaction message data and extracting a term from said acquired transaction message data, comparing said extracted term to terms in a first term repository, and updating said first term repository to include said extracted term in response to a determination said extracted term is absent from said first term repository; and a communication processor for intermittently processing content of said first term repository to be suitable for communication to a second term repository.