DOCLE

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DOCLE (Doctor Command Language),{{Cite web|url=http://www.med.monash.edu.au/general-practice/magnet/docs/magnet-dqs-v1-22-04.pdf|title=Data Quality Statement|last=Turner|first=Lyle|date=22 April 2013|website=Monash University|access-date=}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.healthintersections.com.au/?p=757|title=Australian Extensions to HL7 v2 table 0396|date=2011-12-07|newspaper=Health Intersections Pty Ltd|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-01}} is a non-numeric health coding and medical classification system. The DOCLE system is used{{Cite web|url=http://www.hcn.com.au/uploads/PIP_eHealth_Incentive_Requirement_3_Data_Records_and_Clinical_Coding.pdf|title=Practice Incentives Program (PIP) eHealth Incentive|last=|first=|date=3 July 2014|website=|publisher=Health Communication Network|access-date=}} in Health Communication Network's electronic medical record and patient management software package, Medical Director. Medical Director is the most widely used electronic medical record system by Australian primary health care providers.{{Citation needed|date=February 2017}}

DOCLE has been modelled on the Linnaean biological classification system since 1995.{{Cite web|url=http://www.docle.com.au/publ/Hic99.htm|title=Ian Wilson wrote|website=docle.com.au|access-date=2017-02-01}} DOCLE generates clinical codes from ubiquitous health language using an algorithm, hence it is a human readable clinical coding system.

The design principles of DOCLE, as enumerated by the author in the DOCLE website include:

• DOCLE codes being meaningful and intentional
• DOCLE codes are derived from ubiquitous health language
• DOCLE codes grew with evolving order and speciation of large scale structures in a linnean manner.
• DOCLE codes are designed to strap together and form clinical structures using joiner codes
• The author of DOCLE, Dr. Y Kuang Oon, has likened clinical codes to "neurons" and joiner codes as the "glia"