Key notifications in a clinical computing environment

A system in a clinical computing environment for automatically triaging one or more items of patient information, the system comprising:

• a computing device having a processor and a memory, wherein the computing device comprises:
• an item receiving component for receiving the one or more items of patient information, wherein the one or more items of patient information are associated with patients of a clinician;
• an identification component for identifying at least one of the one or more items of patient information as a time-sensitive item, wherein identifying the at least one of the one or more items of patient information as the time-sensitive item comprises identifying the item as requiring attention by the clinician by a particular time by utilizing at least one user-defined threshold for the clinical computing environment that is customized for a patient that is categorized in a particular patient population, wherein each of the at least one user-defined thresholds is customized based on a defined list of patient characteristics for patients belonging to the particular patient population, and further wherein each of the at least one user-defined thresholds includes a plurality of rules for determining whether a key notification should be presented for the at least one of the one or more items of patient information identified as the time-sensitive item;
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• a key notification component for automatically presenting the key notification for the time-sensitive item, wherein the key notification provides notification of key information to the clinician, the key information including information regarding the identified at least one time-sensitive item of patient information.

One or more computer storage devices having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon that provide for a presentation of one or more user interfaces for triaging patient information in a clinical computing environment, the one or more user interfaces comprising:

• a key notification area configured to display one or more key notifications to a user, each of the one or more key notifications corresponding with one or more items of patient information determined to satisfy predefined criteria for time-sensitivity, the one or more items of patient information determined to satisfy the predefined criteria for time-sensitivity including a critical item, an abnormal item, and a due item, and the one or more key notifications providing notification of information regarding the one or more items of patient information determined to satisfy the predefined criteria for time-sensitivity, wherein time-sensitivity refers to requiring attention by the user by a particular time, and further wherein the predefined criteria for time-sensitivity comprise a patient population criterion, a system-defined threshold for time-sensitivity for the clinical computing environment, and a user-defined threshold for time-sensitivity for the clinical computing environment, wherein:
• the patient population criterion indicates a category of patients that are a subset of a plurality of patients associated with the user,
• the system-defined threshold for time-sensitivity is based on standard practices within at least one of a healthcare industry, a particular clinical facility, and a particular healthcare system, and
• the user-defined threshold for time-sensitivity includes a plurality of rules for determining whether the one or more key notifications should be presented.