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Medical Records Specialists
Compile, process, and maintain medical records of hospital and clinic patients in a manner consistent with medical, administrative, ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements of the healthcare system. Classify medical and healthcare concepts, including diagnosis, procedures, medical services, and equipment, into the healthcare industry's numerical coding system. Includes medical coders.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Review records for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with regulations.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Scan patients' health records into electronic formats.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Release information to persons or agencies according to regulations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Enter data, such as demographic characteristics, history and extent of disease, diagnostic procedures, or treatment into computer.People already use AI for this at work
- 06Maintain or operate a variety of health record indexes or storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store, or analyze information.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Process patient admission or discharge documents.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Retrieve patient medical records for physicians, technicians, or other medical personnel.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Resolve 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.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Compile and maintain patients' medical records to document condition and treatment and to provide data for research or cost control and care improvement efforts.People already use AI for this at work
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 loss67%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
62%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 83% 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
Above 36% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.