14. An apparatus in accordance with claim 13 wherein an output of said new rule is compared to an output of said at least one existing rule to determine whether said outputs are duplicate or are conflicting.
13. An apparatus comprising: a computer system comprising a first subsystem and a second subsystem; said first subsystem comprising a protocol comprising at least one existing rule, said at least one existing rule comprises an input feature and a health care instruction; and said second subsystem configured to: compare terminology in a new rule with terminology in said at least one existing rule, wherein the terminology in said new rule is not identical to the terminology in said at least one existing rule; determine that said new rule is similar to said at least one existing rule as a function of the comparison, wherein determining further comprises passing sample input data through the new rule and the at least one existing rule to determine a respective output of each rule and comparing the output of each rule to determine a duplicate or conflicting output for the same input data; notify a user that said new rule and said at least one existing rule are similar; and prompt the user to resolve the similarity, wherein the user is given an option to cancel said new rule.