Which jobs involve order medical diagnostic or clinical tests?

21 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity, including Acute Care Nurses, Allergists and Immunologists, Anesthesiologists, Cardiologists, Dermatologists.

What kind of work is this?

It is scheduling, planning and resource control. O*NET files it under the work activity "Monitoring and Controlling Resources" (element 4.A.4.c.3).

Order medical diagnostic or clinical tests

Part of the output can be produced by software today.

An agent can propose the plan, chase the replies and keep the record current. To actually change anything it needs write access to a calendar or work system, and a person still owns the tradeoffs when two plans collide.

Key facts about this work activity
How automatable	Partly automatable
Kind of work	Scheduling, planning and resource control
Jobs that do it	21 occupations
Tool categories that apply	Tools and auth, Builders
O*NET activity	Monitoring and Controlling Resources (4.A.4.c.3)

What this looks like on the job

Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 21 occupations that perform it.

Administer or order diagnostic tests, such as x-ray, electrocardiogram, and laboratory tests.
Order or recommend diagnostic procedures, such as stress tests, drug screenings, or urinary tests.
Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.
Order, perform, or interpret the results of diagnostic tests and screening procedures based on assessment results, differential diagnoses, and knowledge about age, gender and health status of clients.
Order and interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests.
Order, perform, or interpret the results of diagnostic tests, such as complete blood counts (CBCs), electrocardiograms (EKGs), and radiographs (x-rays).
Order laboratory tests, x-rays, and other diagnostic procedures.
Order medical tests, such as echocardiograms, electrocardiograms, and angiograms.
Conduct or order diagnostic tests such as chest radiographs (x-rays), microbiologic tests, or endocrinologic tests.
Select, request, perform, or interpret diagnostic procedures, such as laboratory tests, electrocardiograms, emergency ultrasounds, and radiographs.
Order, perform, and interpret tests and analyze records, reports, and examination information to diagnose patients' condition.
Order or interpret results of laboratory analyses of patients' blood or cerebrospinal fluid.
Examine patients or order, perform, and interpret diagnostic tests to obtain information on medical condition and determine diagnosis.
Order or perform diagnostic tests such as skin pricks and intradermal, patch, or delayed hypersensitivity tests.
Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiographs (x-rays).
Order and interpret the results of diagnostic tests, such as prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening, to detect prostate cancer.
Order and interpret the results of laboratory tests and diagnostic imaging procedures.
Perform, order, or interpret the results of diagnostic or clinical tests.

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 scheduling, planning and resource control, and what it costs.

Our pickFrom $9/mo · nothing else needed

MakeStart hereVisual scenario builder over 3,000-plus apps, materially cheaper than Zapier at volume.From $9/mo

Scheduling is a connector problem rather than an intelligence one, and $9 a month of Make covers both the calendar and the chasing. An agent platform priced per seat adds nothing you would notice here.

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.

Tools and auth

Free tier

Free tier

Custom

Free tier

Builders

Free self-host

From $29.99/mo

From $19.99/mo

From $29/mo

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.

Propose times and chase repliesAgent proposes meeting times, sends follow-ups, and confirms bookings while you focus on the actual meetings.Operations · 8 steps Chase unpaid invoicesYour aged debtors report becomes a queue of drafted emails you approve once, then the agent sends and follows up on schedule.Money · 8 steps

Who does this work

21 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.

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.