Develop medical treatment plans
Most of the output can be produced by software today.
Producing the draft is the single thing current models are best at, and it needs no integration at all: a prompt and a couple of reference documents are enough. A person still edits it and takes responsibility for what goes out.
| How automatable | Mostly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Drafting and content production |
| Jobs that do it | 24 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Generalist agents, Builders |
| O*NET activity | Thinking Creatively (4.A.2.b.2) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 24 occupations that perform it.
- Formulate plan of treatment for patient's teeth and mouth tissue.
- Analyze test results and develop a treatment plan.
- Plan, prepare, or carry out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve, or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain, or prevent physical dysfunction in patients.
- Help physicians, radiation oncologists, or clinical physicists to prepare physical or technical aspects of radiation treatment plans, using information about patient condition and anatomy.
- Develop discharge plans for patients.
- Customize treatment programs for specific areas of music therapy, such as intellectual or developmental disabilities, educational settings, geriatrics, medical settings, mental health, physical disabilities, or wellness.
- Plan or execute animal nutrition or reproduction programs.
- Develop and implement treatment plans.
- Identify patients' age-specific needs and alter care plans as necessary to meet those needs.
- Develop or assist others in development of care and treatment plans.
- Develop anesthesia care plans.
- Develop and implement individualized plans for health care management.
- Develop treatment plans, based on scientific rationale, standards of care, and professional practice guidelines.
- Plan and conduct treatment programs for patients' hearing or balance problems, consulting with educators, physicians, nurses, psychologists, speech-language pathologists, and other health care personnel, as necessary.
- Design and explain treatment plans, based on patient information such as medical history, reports, and examination results.
- Develop treatment plans based on diagnoses and on evaluation of factors, such as age and general health, or procedural risks and costs.
- Design individualized care plans, using a variety of treatments.
- Develop treatment plans for radiology patients.
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 drafting and content production, and what it costs.
Drafting needs no tools, no integration and no platform. One $20 assistant and two reference documents beat any agent builder here, and every extra thing in this stack is cost with nothing behind it.
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.
Generalist agents
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
24 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses
- Allergists and Immunologists
- Audiologists
- Cardiologists
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Critical Care Nurses
- Dentists, General
- Genetic Counselors
- Hospitalists
- Midwives
- Music Therapists
- Neurologists
- Nurse Anesthetists
- Nurse Midwives
- Nurse Practitioners
- Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric
- Optometrists
- Orthoptists
- Physical Therapists
- Psychiatrists
- Radiation Therapists
- Radiologists
- Recreational Therapists
- Veterinarians
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Develop patient or client care or treatment plans”. 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.