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Hospitalists
Provide inpatient care predominantly in settings such as medical wards, acute care units, intensive care units, rehabilitation centers, or emergency rooms. Manage and coordinate patient care throughout treatment.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiographs (x-rays).AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Admit patients for hospital stays.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Conduct discharge planning and discharge patients.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Write patient discharge summaries and send them to primary care physicians.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Refer patients to medical specialists, social services, or other professionals as appropriate.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Direct, coordinate, or supervise the patient care activities of nursing or support staff.Mostly human for now
- 09Attend inpatient consultations in areas of specialty.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Communicate with patients' primary care physicians upon admission, when treatment plans change, or at discharge to maintain continuity and quality of care.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss3%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
57%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 35% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Direct, coordinate, or supervise the patient care activities of nursing or support staff.