9. A computer-implemented system for handling Health Level Seven (HL7) electronic medical data, comprising: means for receiving HL7 electronic medical data; wherein the HL7 electronic medical data includes data segments, wherein a segment has a three character name and a pre-defined format of specific fields; an HL7 message processor configured to execute in a computer system and to create an electronic indexing medical record based upon the received HL7 electronic medical data; said HL7 message processor creating a medically-related document containing data from the received HL7 electronic medical data; wherein the indexing medical record and the medically-related document are provided to a document management system; wherein the document management system is configured to execute in the computer system and to store the medically-related document and to use the provided indexing medical record in order to index the medically-related document.
15. The system of claim 9 , wherein the created electronic indexing medical record is used to index documents within the document management system that are generated subsequent to the creating of the electronic indexing medical record.