1. A system for managing form-generated data related to a patient encounter, wherein the form-generated data is generated by electronic writing system configured to generate location information that identifies the location of a user writing on the form, the form having designated information fields at different locations on the form, the system comprising: a contextualizer configured to translate location information related to a user writing on a form to a contextualized data element, wherein the form has designated information fields at different locations on the form and wherein the contextualized data element comprises contextual information that is associated with the user writing, wherein the contextualizer includes a mapping data set that maps user areas on the form to labels that are associated with the designated information fields and wherein the contextualizer is configured to identify a label from the location information by comparing the location information to the mapping data set, the contextualized data element comprising the label; and wherein the contextualized data element is distributed to an Electronic Medical Record (EMR)/Electronic Health Record (EHR) application, which utilizes the label in the contextualized data element to perform a function that is related to the user writing on the form, via a publish/subscribe protocol in which the EMR/EHR application subscribes to a specific contextualized data element by identifying the label associated with the contextualized data element.
1. A system for managing form-generated data related to a patient encounter, wherein the form-generated data is generated by electronic writing system configured to generate location information that identifies the location of a user writing on the form, the form having designated information fields at different locations on the form, the system comprising: a contextualizer configured to translate location information related to a user writing on a form to a contextualized data element, wherein the form has designated information fields at different locations on the form and wherein the contextualized data element comprises contextual information that is associated with the user writing, wherein the contextualizer includes a mapping data set that maps user areas on the form to labels that are associated with the designated information fields and wherein the contextualizer is configured to identify a label from the location information by comparing the location information to the mapping data set, the contextualized data element comprising the label; and wherein the contextualized data element is distributed to an Electronic Medical Record (EMR)/Electronic Health Record (EHR) application, which utilizes the label in the contextualized data element to perform a function that is related to the user writing on the form, via a publish/subscribe protocol in which the EMR/EHR application subscribes to a specific contextualized data element by identifying the label associated with the contextualized data element. 6. The system of claim 1 wherein the label comprises a standardized medical code.