Treat chronic diseases or disorders
Little of this can be handed to software today.
The documentation around care is highly automatable and that is where the time goes back. The care itself needs physical presence and someone accountable for the outcome, so this work stays where it is.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Direct care and assistance |
| Jobs that do it | 20 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Vertical agents |
| O*NET activity | Assisting and Caring for Others (4.A.4.a.5) |
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.
- Perform minor facial rejuvenation procedures, including the use of Botox and laser technology.
- Provide vision therapy and low-vision rehabilitation.
- Provide specialized services to help patients manage conditions, such as diabetes, asthma, smoking cessation, or high blood pressure.
- Treat bone, muscle, and joint disorders affecting the feet and ankles.
- Perform bronchopulmonary drainage and assist or instruct patients in performance of breathing exercises.
- Diagnose or treat chronic health care problems, such as high blood pressure and diabetes.
- Provide therapies such as intralesional steroids, chemical peels, or comodo removal to treat age spots, sun damage, rough skin, discolored skin, or oily skin.
- Treat internal disorders, such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, or problems of the lung, brain, kidney, or gastrointestinal tract.
- Identify and treat major neurological system diseases and disorders, such as central nervous system infection, cranio spinal trauma, dementia, and stroke.
- Treat diseases of female organs.
- Treat children who have minor illnesses, acute and chronic health problems, and growth and development concerns.
- Provide therapies, such as allergen immunotherapy or immunoglobin therapy, to treat immune conditions.
- Diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients.
- Treat urologic disorders using alternatives to traditional surgery such as extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, laparoscopy, or laser techniques.
- Provide inpatient or outpatient medical management of neuromuscular disorders, musculoskeletal trauma, acute and chronic pain, deformity or amputation, cardiac or pulmonary disease, or other disabling conditions.
- Evaluate and manage chronic pain conditions.
- Diagnose or treat injuries, disorders, or diseases of the eye and eye structures including the cornea, sclera, conjunctiva, or eyelids.
- Diagnose or treat disorders of the musculoskeletal system.
What we would actually use
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.
Buy nothing for the care itself. The time comes back from the documentation around it, so the stack worth building is the recording one, on the pages for that work.
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.
Who does this work
20 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Allergists and Immunologists
- Dermatologists
- General Internal Medicine Physicians
- Hearing Aid Specialists
- Hospitalists
- Neurologists
- Nurse Practitioners
- Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric
- Optometrists
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
- Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric
- Orthoptists
- Pediatricians, General
- Pharmacists
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians
- Podiatrists
- Respiratory Therapists
- Sports Medicine Physicians
- Urologists
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Treat injuries, illnesses, or diseases”. 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.