Prepare reports summarizing patient diagnostic or care activities
Most of the output can be produced by software today.
This is the most automatable shape of work there is, and also the shape that most needs a live connection to the system the record lives in. Without that connection an agent can prepare the entry but cannot file it.
| How automatable | Mostly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Recording, documentation and administration |
| Jobs that do it | 20 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Tools and auth, Builders |
| O*NET activity | Documenting/Recording Information (4.A.3.b.6) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 20 occupations that perform it.
- Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
- Write reports or complete forms to document assessments, training, progress, or follow-up outcomes.
- Prepare and submit reports and charts to treatment team to reflect patients' reactions and evidence of progress or regression.
- Write reports and maintain proper documentation of information, such as client Medicaid or billing records or caseload activities, including the initial evaluation, treatment, progress, and discharge of clients.
- Write treatment plans, case summaries, or progress or other reports related to individual clients or client groups.
- Document evaluations, treatment plans, case summaries, or progress or other reports related to individual clients or client groups.
- Prepare reports to document patients' care activities.
- Write information in medical records or provide narrative summaries to communicate patient information to other health care providers.
- Write pathology reports summarizing analyses, results, and conclusions.
- Prepare and submit case reports or summaries to government or mental health agencies.
- Prepare comprehensive interpretive reports of findings.
- Write patient discharge summaries and send them to primary care physicians.
- Prepare diagnostic or treatment reports for other medical practitioners or therapists.
- Summarize test results and report to appropriate authorities.
- Transcribe, type, and distribute reports of diagnostic procedures for interpretation by physician.
- Record, process, and maintain patient data or treatment records and prepare reports.
- Write reports or notes to summarize testing procedures or outcomes for physicians or other medical professionals.
- Summarize technical data to assist physicians to diagnose brain, sleep, or nervous system disorders.
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 recording, documentation and administration, and what it costs.
The work is not writing the record, it is filing it where the record lives. Make reaches most of those systems from $9 a month, which is the cheapest honest start; Composio is for when you are writing the agent yourself.
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.
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
20 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Art Therapists
- Athletic Trainers
- Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Cytogenetic Technologists
- Genetic Counselors
- Hospitalists
- Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists
- Music Therapists
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists
- Nurse Midwives
- Occupational Therapists
- Orthoptists
- Physicians, Pathologists
- Psychiatrists
- Radiologic Technologists and Technicians
- Radiologists
- Recreational Therapists
- Speech-Language Pathologists
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Prepare health or medical documents”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
| Activity | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Prepare official health documents or records | 12 |
| Prepare medical reports or documents | 6 |
| Document client health or progress | 5 |
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.