1. An electronic health care system comprising: a modular framework including a plurality of activities, each activity providing an aspect of patient care, the framework adaptable for accepting additional activities forming a single integrated system; and a display in communication with the modular framework for providing a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface adaptable for displaying information corresponding to one or more of the activities and including a common menu format utilized by the graphical user interface for communicating available operations in the graphical user interface, and common visual components utilized by the graphical user interface for displaying information to a system user.