6. A system of retrieving electronic medical record search results, said system comprising: an interface configured to accept search criteria and display search results; a database interface adapter to interface with an electronic medical record database to transmit and receive data, wherein the database interface adapter facilitates searching identified and de-identified electronic medical record data from a plurality of departmental information systems; and a formatter to format search results for display via the interface, the formatter configured to consolidate results by relevance to search criteria and with respect to a particular patient, the formatter automatically de-identifying at least one of patient and physician data from the search results and providing local re-identification of at least a portion of the search results for an authorized healthcare provider user who has been identified and verified for local re-identification and access to the at least a portion of the search results at a local system, wherein the search results including at least one of de-identified patient data and de-identified physician data are provided to the local system and re-identified at the local system for the authorized healthcare provider user based on re-identification functionality at the authorized healthcare provider user's local system to provide physical separation of re-identified search results available to the authorized healthcare provider user and de-identified search results available to one or more additional users.
6. A system of retrieving electronic medical record search results, said system comprising: an interface configured to accept search criteria and display search results; a database interface adapter to interface with an electronic medical record database to transmit and receive data, wherein the database interface adapter facilitates searching identified and de-identified electronic medical record data from a plurality of departmental information systems; and a formatter to format search results for display via the interface, the formatter configured to consolidate results by relevance to search criteria and with respect to a particular patient, the formatter automatically de-identifying at least one of patient and physician data from the search results and providing local re-identification of at least a portion of the search results for an authorized healthcare provider user who has been identified and verified for local re-identification and access to the at least a portion of the search results at a local system, wherein the search results including at least one of de-identified patient data and de-identified physician data are provided to the local system and re-identified at the local system for the authorized healthcare provider user based on re-identification functionality at the authorized healthcare provider user's local system to provide physical separation of re-identified search results available to the authorized healthcare provider user and de-identified search results available to one or more additional users. 9. The system of claim 6 , wherein said database interface adapter is configured to interface with a particular departmental information system.