Abstract: A system and related techniques automatically generate optimized, best-match or sufficient assignments of care providers, such as physicians, nurses or technicians, to a patient based on clinical evidence, documentation, workload, infectious status and other factors. In embodiments, the patient's chart or other clinical record may be accessed by a rules-based engine configured with rules which relate a patient's clinical status and needs to the qualifications, certifications, capabilities and skills of care providers and select the care provider best qualified to service that patient's clinical requirements. The pool of available care providers may for example be ascertained from personnel systems recording staff schedules and estimated workload, while the qualifications of each provider indicating the categories of patient care and support that provider is qualified to provide may be accessed from a provider data store.