Maintain medical equipment or instruments.
Little of this can be handed to software today.
This happens in the physical world, so software agents do not touch it. Automation here means robotics and machinery, which is a different market from the one mapped on this site, on a much slower clock.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Physical, manual and inspection work |
| Jobs that do it | 24 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | None |
| O*NET activity | Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment (4.A.3.b.4) |
What could do this work.
Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.
Who does this work.
24 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Anesthesiologist Assistants
- Athletic Trainers
- Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians
- Critical Care Nurses
- Dental Hygienists
- Emergency Medical Technicians
- Endoscopy Technicians
- Exercise Physiologists
- Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists
- Medical Equipment Preparers
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists
- Nurse Anesthetists
- Occupational Therapy Aides
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Ophthalmic Medical Technicians
- Ophthalmic Medical Technologists
- Pharmacy Aides
- Pharmacy Technicians
- Phlebotomists
- Physical Therapist Aides
- Respiratory Therapists
- Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers
- Veterinary Technologists and Technicians
Work that goes with it.
O*NET groups these under “Maintain medical equipment or instruments”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
| Activity | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Maintain medical laboratory equipment | 8 |
| Repair medical facility equipment | 7 |
| Repair medical or dental assistive devices | 4 |
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.