Monitor patient progress or responses to treatments.
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 | 33 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | None |
| O*NET activity | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings (4.A.1.a.2) |
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.
33 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
- Anesthesiologist Assistants
- Anesthesiologists
- Art Therapists
- Audiologists
- Cardiologists
- Critical Care Nurses
- Dietetic Technicians
- Emergency Medical Technicians
- Emergency Medicine Physicians
- Family Medicine Physicians
- General Internal Medicine Physicians
- Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists
- Music Therapists
- Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Aides
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Paramedics
- Pediatric Surgeons
- Pediatricians, General
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians
- Physical Therapist Aides
- Physical Therapist Assistants
- Physical Therapists
- Physician Assistants
- Recreational Therapists
- Registered Nurses
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Sports Medicine Physicians
- Surgical Assistants
- Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers
Work that goes with it.
O*NET groups these under “Monitor health conditions of humans or animals”. 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.