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How exposed to AI is a Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrar?

Of the 16 tasks O*NET lists for health information technologists and medical registrars, 5 could be done in half the time with a chat window today. 4 cannot be sped up at all. Here is which.

Exposure means published research judged an AI could halve the time a task takes, at the same quality. It does not mean the task stops needing a person. How to read this

Also called
Medical Records AnalystMedical Records Director
Reachable today Needs software built first Cannot be sped up
16
tasks rated for this occupation
38k
people do this job in the US
6 of 89
least protected in healthcare practitioners

Every task, and what AI can do with it

These are O*NET's task statements for this occupation, exactly as written, sorted into the three bands by the ratings behind this report. Nothing has been reworded.

Reachable with a chat window today

5
  • Assign the patient to diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), using appropriate computer software
  • Develop in-service educational materials
  • Facilitate and promote activities, such as lunches, seminars, or tours, to foster healthcare information privacy or security awareness within the organization
  • Retrieve patient medical records for physicians, technicians, or other medical personnel
  • Write or maintain archived procedures, procedural codes, or queries for applications

Only with software built on top

7
  • Compile medical care and census data for statistical reports on diseases treated, surgery performed, or use of hospital beds
  • Design databases to support healthcare applications, ensuring security, performance and reliability
  • Evaluate and recommend upgrades or improvements to existing computerized healthcare systems
  • Monitor changes in legislation and accreditation standards that affect information security or privacy in the computerized healthcare system
  • Plan, develop, maintain, or operate a variety of health record indexes or storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store, or analyze information
  • Prepare statistical reports, narrative reports, or graphic presentations of information, such as tumor registry data for use by hospital staff, researchers, or other users
  • Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained

Cannot be sped up

4
  • Identify, compile, abstract, and code patient data, using standard classification systems
  • Manage the department or supervise clerical workers, directing or controlling activities of personnel in the medical records department
  • Resolve or clarify codes or diagnoses with conflicting, missing, or unclear information by consulting with doctors or others or by participating in the coding team's regular meetings
  • Train medical records staff
What this does not say

This is not a prediction about your job

Nobody surveyed an employer. Tasks are counted equally, so a percentage here is a share of the list rather than a share of your week. And the ratings were made in 2023, which makes every figure a floor rather than a ceiling.

It must never be used to select anyone for redundancy. The full limits are here.

Where to go next

This is the standard task list for the title. The useful next question is which of the tasks you actually do should go near AI, and which should not.

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Exposure ratings from Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs, Science 384, 1306–1308, 2024, used under the MIT licence. This page includes information from the O*NET Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. People Team AI has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. Employment figures from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.