Will AI Replace Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars?

Assign the patient to diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), using appropriate computer software.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Compile medical care and census data for statistical reports on diseases treated, surgery performed, or use of hospital beds.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Design databases to support healthcare applications, ensuring security, performance and reliability.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Develop in-service educational materials.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Evaluate and recommend upgrades or improvements to existing computerized healthcare systems.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Facilitate and promote activities, such as lunches, seminars, or tours, to foster healthcare information privacy or security awareness within the organization.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Identify, compile, abstract, and code patient data, using standard classification systems.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Manage the department or supervise clerical workers, directing or controlling activities of personnel in the medical records department.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Monitor changes in legislation and accreditation standards that affect information security or privacy in the computerized healthcare system.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Plan, develop, maintain, or operate a variety of health record indexes or storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store, or analyze information.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Prepare statistical reports, narrative reports, or graphic presentations of information, such as tumor registry data for use by hospital staff, researchers, or other users.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Resolve or clarify codes or diagnoses with conflicting, missing, or unclear information by consulting with doctors or others or by participating in the coding team's regular meetings.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Retrieve patient medical records for physicians, technicians, or other medical personnel.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Train medical records staff.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Write or maintain archived procedures, procedural codes, or queries for applications.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.