1. A system for determining patient acuity, the system including: an analysis component for generating analysis data based at least in part on a medical image; an acuity database for associating the analysis data with a plurality of acuity values, each acuity value based on a separate anomaly, thereby providing an acuity value for each separate anomaly; and a processing component for identifying a highest acuity value of the plurality of acuity values and associating an acuity level that corresponds to the highest acuity value with the medical image by mapping the analysis data to an acuity value based at least in part on the acuity database, wherein the acuity level is based at least in part on the acuity value.