Automated workflow access based on clinical user role and location

A computer system for automating workflow access based on user role and location, the computer system comprising a server, a processor coupled to a computer storage medium, the computer storage medium having stored thereon a plurality of computer software components executable by the processor, the plurality of computer software components comprising:

• a detecting component that detects a first location associated with a first device and a second location associated with a second device;
• a role component that determines a role and a first set of duties associated with a clinician based at least in part on the clinician's login credentials and the first or second location, wherein the clinician's login credentials are authenticated via the first device;
• an application component that, when clinician's login credentials are authenticated:
• creates a workspace comprising one or more clinical applications and one or more nonclinical applications based on the role and first set of duties associated with the clinician at the first location;
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• selectively launches, on the first device and from the workspace, the one or more clinical applications and the one or more nonclinical applications based on a level of privacy associated with the first location and a first set of duties determined;
• and
• a session component that:
• when the clinician logs into a second device, suspends a first session associated with the one or more clinical applications and the one or more nonclinical applications selectively launched on the first device from the workspace, wherein a first placeholder within the one or more clinical applications and the one or more nonclinical applications is preserved when suspended;
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• resumes a second session associated with at least one application of the one or more clinical applications and the one or more nonclinical applications, wherein the at least one application in the second session resumes from the workspace at the first placeholder on the second device, and wherein the at least application is relevant to a second set of duties at the second location.

One or more computer storage media devices having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, facilitate a method of automating workflow access based on user role and location, the method comprising:

• communicating a role associated with a clinician based at least in part on the clinician's login credentials, wherein the clinician's login credentials are authenticated by a server in a healthcare information system via a first device;
• determining a first location of the clinician and a first set of duties associated with the role in the first location;
• creating a first workspace of a first plurality of applications that are relevant to perform the first set of duties associated with the role in the first location, wherein the first plurality of applications include one or more clinical applications and one or more nonclinical applications;
• communicating the first workspace to the first device;
• determining a second location of the clinician and a second set of duties associated with the role in the second location;
• suspending the first plurality of applications of the first workspace, wherein a first placeholder within the first plurality of applications is preserved when suspended;
• creating a second workspace of a second plurality of applications, wherein at least one application from the first workspace is excluded based on a privacy protocol associated with the second location, and wherein at least one other application from the first workspace is included in the second workspace as relevant to perform the second set of duties in the second location;
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• automatically launching the second workspace from the first placeholder.