Analyze patient data to determine patient needs or treatment goals
Most of the output can be produced by software today.
Software can pull the data, run the comparison and write up what it found. The accuracy depends almost entirely on whether it is wired into the real system of record rather than a stale copy, which is the problem the tools and auth layer exists to solve.
| How automatable | Mostly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Analysis and evaluation work |
| Jobs that do it | 27 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Builders, Tools and auth |
| O*NET activity | Analyzing Data or Information (4.A.2.a.4) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 27 occupations that perform it.
- Analyze or evaluate dental needs to determine changes or trends in patterns of dental disease.
- Evaluate the position of the wisdom teeth to determine whether problems exist currently or might occur in the future.
- Study diagnostic records, such as medical or dental histories, plaster models of the teeth, photos of a patient's face and teeth, and X-rays, to develop patient treatment plans.
- Record and evaluate patient and family health and food history, including symptoms, environmental toxic exposure, allergies, medication factors, and preventive health-care measures.
- Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
- Administer tests and interpret test results to develop rehabilitation plans for clients.
- Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention.
- Evaluate hearing or speech and language test results, barium swallow results, or medical or background information to diagnose and plan treatment for speech, language, fluency, voice, or swallowing disorders.
- Analyze or synthesize client data to draw conclusions or make recommendations for art therapy.
- Analyze or synthesize client data to draw conclusions or make recommendations for therapy.
- Assess urgent and emergent health conditions, using both physiologically and technologically derived data.
- Evaluate patients' behavior to formulate diagnoses or assess treatments.
- Plan, evaluate, or modify treatment programs, based on information gathered by observing and interviewing patients or by analyzing patient records.
- Assess patients' medical histories to predict anesthesia response.
- Evaluate patients to determine eligibility for cosmetic procedures such as liposuction, laser resurfacing, or microdermabrasion.
- Evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs and priority of treatment.
- Evaluate and manage chronic pain conditions.
- Analyze patient's medical history, medication allergies, physical condition, and examination results to verify operation's necessity and to determine best procedure.
What we would actually use
One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for analysis and evaluation work, and what it costs.
Start in the assistant with an export of the real data, because the accuracy problem here is a stale copy rather than a weak model. Make, at $9 a month, is the cheapest way to put the pull on a schedule once the analysis is worth repeating.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
27 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Acute Care Nurses
- Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses
- Art Therapists
- Athletic Trainers
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Dentists, General
- Dermatologists
- Dietetic Technicians
- Dietitians and Nutritionists
- Emergency Medical Technicians
- Emergency Medicine Physicians
- Genetic Counselors
- Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists
- Midwives
- Music Therapists
- Nurse Anesthetists
- Nursing Assistants
- Occupational Therapists
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
- Orthodontists
- Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric
- Paramedics
- Pediatric Surgeons
- Physical Therapists
- Radiologic Technologists and Technicians
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Sports Medicine Physicians
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Analyze health or medical data”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.