1. A computer-implemented method for handling Health Level Seven (HL7) electronic medical data, comprising the steps of: 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; creating an electronic indexing medical record based upon the received HL7 electronic medical data; creating a medically-related document containing data from the received HL7 electronic medical data; providing the indexing medical record and the medically-related document to a document management system; wherein the document management system is configured to store the medically-related document and to use the provided indexing medical record in order to index the medically-related document.
1. A computer-implemented method for handling Health Level Seven (HL7) electronic medical data, comprising the steps of: 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; creating an electronic indexing medical record based upon the received HL7 electronic medical data; creating a medically-related document containing data from the received HL7 electronic medical data; providing the indexing medical record and the medically-related document to a document management system; wherein the document management system is configured to store the medically-related document and to use the provided indexing medical record in order to index the medically-related document. 3. The method of claim 1 , wherein HL7 is directed to level seven of the ISO (International Standards Organization) communications model.