Will AI replace Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars?
Estimated risk score: 77 out of 100
High replacement risk
Estimate from published task research, not reviewed by a person · how we estimate
Within about 19 points for 4 in 5 of the jobs we checked (58 to 96).
For the occupation as a whole, from ratings of its 16 O*NET tasks published in 2023 and calibrated to our hand scores. A specialty inside it can sit higher or lower.
O*NET-SOC 29-9021.00 · Healthcare Practitioners and Technical
Tasks rated in 2023 as ones AI could do or speed up
Tasks a GPT-4-class model could do, or do in half the time or less: 11 of its 16 rated tasks; the first 6 are shown. In O*NET’s words.
- Assign the patient to diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), using appropriate computer software.
- Develop in-service educational materials.
- Write or maintain archived procedures, procedural codes, or queries for applications.
- Compile medical care and census data for statistical reports on diseases treated, surgery performed, or use of hospital beds.
- Identify, compile, abstract, and code patient data, using standard classification systems.
- Plan, develop, maintain, or operate a variety of health record indexes or storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store, or analyze information.
Tasks rated in 2023 as not sped up by AI
Tasks such a model was rated as not speeding up or taking over: 0 of its 16 rated tasks. In O*NET’s words.
None of its rated tasks.
What the job is
Apply knowledge of healthcare and information systems to assist in the design, development, and continued modification and analysis of computerized healthcare systems. Abstract, collect, and analyze treatment and followup information of patients. May educate staff and assist in problem solving to promote the implementation of the healthcare information system. May design, develop, test, and implement databases with complete history, diagnosis, treatment, and health status to help monitor diseases.
Also called: Medical Records Analyst, CTR, CDIS, ROI Specialist, MDS Coordinator, Tumor Registrar, Cancer Registrar, Health Data Analyst.
Closest jobs we score by hand
In the same field (Healthcare Practitioners and Technical). Different jobs, each scored by a person.
Source. This site includes information from the O*NET 30.1 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. (O*NET, CC BY 4.0.) Task ratings: Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock (2023), “GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models”, data used under the MIT licence (licence texts). Our change: we averaged the ratings over this occupation’s tasks and calibrated them to our 0–100 scale. It is not a prediction about any one person and not career advice. Disagree? Write to hello@yourstopwashit.com. How we estimate