27. A method for providing structured clinical information from patient records, the method comprising: (a) mining, by a processor, a patient record having at least one unstructured data source comprising unstructured patient information, the mining comprising mining unstructured free text information, the patient record being from a healthcare provider, the mining including extracting at least one of multiple pieces of information related to each of multiple variables; (b) creating, probabilistically by the processor, structured clinical data for each of the variables from the extracted multiple pieces of information, including the at least one piece of the unstructured patient information mined from the unstructured data source, the structured clinical data being stored for answering a question regarding patients; (c) providing (a) as a service to the healthcare provider; and (d) mining from the structured clinical data as a function of the question.
27. A method for providing structured clinical information from patient records, the method comprising: (a) mining, by a processor, a patient record having at least one unstructured data source comprising unstructured patient information, the mining comprising mining unstructured free text information, the patient record being from a healthcare provider, the mining including extracting at least one of multiple pieces of information related to each of multiple variables; (b) creating, probabilistically by the processor, structured clinical data for each of the variables from the extracted multiple pieces of information, including the at least one piece of the unstructured patient information mined from the unstructured data source, the structured clinical data being stored for answering a question regarding patients; (c) providing (a) as a service to the healthcare provider; and (d) mining from the structured clinical data as a function of the question. 37. The method of claim 27 wherein (a) comprises mining the at least one unstructured data source comprising the unstructured patient information, the unstructured patient information comprising one or more of: ASCII text strings, image information in DICOM format, text documents or combinations thereof.