6. The system of claim 1 wherein the label conveys medical taxonomy.
1. A system for managing form-generated data related to a patient encounter, the system comprising: a form having designated information fields at different locations on the form; an electronic writing system configured to generate location information that identifies the location of a user writing on the form; a contextualizer configured to translate location information related to the user writing to a contextualized data element, wherein the contextualized data element comprises contextual information that is associated with the user writing, wherein the contextualizer includes a mapping data set that maps user areas on the form to labels that are associated with the designated information fields and wherein the contextualizer is configured to identify a label from the location information by comparing the location information to the mapping data set, the contextualized data element comprising the label; and an Electronic Medical Record (EMR)/Electronic Health Record (EHR) application that utilizes the label in the contextualized data element to perform a function that is related to the user writing on the form; wherein the contextualized data element is distributed to the EMR/EHR application via a publish/subscribe protocol in which the EMR/EHR application subscribes to a specific contextualized data element by identifying the label associated with the contextualized data element.