1. In a computing environment, a computer-implemented method performed on at least one processor, the method comprising: determining that data associated with a patient does not have an image representative of the patient assigned to the data; based on determining that data associated with a patient does not have an image of the patient assigned to the data, automatically acquiring a patient image from documents associated with the patient; obtaining information for the image that indicates a bounded region indicative of where the patient's face appears within a frame of the patient image; clipping the bounded region from the patient image to obtain a patient facial image; maintaining the patient facial image in association with the data associated with the patient; and printing patient facial image data corresponding to the image to a medical item associated with the patient.