Automatic user provisioning, such as the automatic creation of provider profiles in an electronic medical record system

One or more memories collectively storing a field population data structure relating to resources, the data structure comprising:

• a plurality of entries, each entry comprising:
• information identifying one or more classes of resources;
• and
• information identifying one or more data items to be populated in each resource profile created for resources among the one or more identified classes,
• such that the contents of the data structure are usable to determine which data items are to be populated when creating a resource profile for a particular resource, based upon the class of the resource.

One or more memories collectively having contents configured to cause a computing system to perform a method, the method comprising:

• retrieving from an identity management system information about a worker;
• determining, based upon the information retrieved from the identity management system, that a user profile should be created for the worker in a software system;
• determining, based upon the information retrieved from the identity management system, a set of user profile fields that should be populated for the worker in the software system;
• causing a user profile to be created for the worker in the software system;
• and
• for each of the determined set of user profile fields:
• mapping between the user profile field and a field among information maintained for the worker by the identity management system;
• and
• causing the determined field of the created user profile to be populated with the mapped field among information maintained for the worker by the identity management system.