Collect medical information from patients, family members, or other medical professionals.
Most of the output can be produced by software today.
An agent can find, read and summarise the sources this work depends on, and it can cover far more of them than a person would ever open. What it does not do is decide which sources deserve trust, or what the findings mean for your situation.
| How automatable | Mostly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Research and retrieval work |
| Jobs that do it | 36 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Web, data and docs, Generalist agents, Builders, Models and routing |
| O*NET activity | Getting Information (4.A.1.a.1) |
What could do this work.
These are the categories of tool that address research and retrieval work, with a few live examples from our landscape. We name the category rather than promise that a specific product does your specific task, because that promise would not be true.
Web, data and docs
Generalist agents
Builders
Models and routing
Categories are matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Before committing to any of them, check that the tool can reach the system your record actually lives in. That connection, not the model, is where most of these projects stall.
Who does this work.
36 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Acupuncturists
- Art Therapists
- Cardiologists
- Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians
- Chiropractors
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Dietetic Technicians
- Emergency Medicine Physicians
- Exercise Physiologists
- Family Medicine Physicians
- General Internal Medicine Physicians
- Genetic Counselors
- Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists
- Medical Dosimetrists
- Medical Records Specialists
- Mental Health Counselors
- Midwives
- Music Therapists
- Naturopathic Physicians
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists
- Neurologists
- Nurse Anesthetists
- Nursing Assistants
- Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Ophthalmic Medical Technicians
- Ophthalmic Medical Technologists
- Orthotists and Prosthetists
- Pediatricians, General
- Phlebotomists
- Physician Assistants
- Psychiatric Technicians
- Psychiatrists
- Radiologic Technologists and Technicians
- Radiologists
- Recreational Therapists
Work that goes with it.
O*NET groups these under “Collect information about patients or clients”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
| Activity | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Collect information from people through observation, interviews, or surveys | 17 |
| Gather medical information from patient histories | 15 |
| Collect information about clients | 10 |
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.