Unified Documentation and Information Retrieval for Electronic Health Records

A computer implemented method for managing medical information includes displaying a number of user interface elements within a graphical user interface, receiving medical information for a patient in a first user interface element of the user interface elements, processing the medical information to identify one or more semantic items, the one or more semantic items including a first semantic item, processing a medical record for the patient according to first semantic item, the processing including identifying a number of medical information items related to the first semantic item, and presenting at least some medical information items of the number of medical information items in a second user interface element configured to display medical information items related to the first semantic item.