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Medical Transcriptionists
Transcribe medical reports recorded by physicians and other healthcare practitioners using various electronic devices, covering office visits, emergency room visits, diagnostic imaging studies, operations, chart reviews, and final summaries. Transcribe dictated reports and translate abbreviations into fully understandable form. Edit as necessary and return reports in either printed or electronic form for review and signature, or correction.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Return dictated reports in printed or electronic form for physician's review, signature, and corrections and for inclusion in patients' medical records.AI could speed this up a lot
- 02Produce medical reports, correspondence, records, patient-care information, statistics, medical research, and administrative material.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Identify mistakes in reports and check with doctors to obtain the correct information.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Review and edit transcribed reports or dictated material for spelling, grammar, clarity, consistency, and proper medical terminology.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Transcribe dictation for a variety of medical reports, such as patient histories, physical examinations, emergency room visits, operations, chart reviews, consultation, or discharge summaries.People already use AI for this at work
- 06Distinguish between homonyms and recognize inconsistencies and mistakes in medical terms, referring to dictionaries, drug references, and other sources on anatomy, physiology, and medicine.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Set up and maintain medical files and databases, including records such as x-ray, lab, and procedure reports, medical histories, diagnostic workups, admission and discharge summaries, and clinical resumes.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Translate medical jargon and abbreviations into their expanded forms to ensure the accuracy of patient and health care facility records.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Perform data entry and data retrieval services, providing data for inclusion in medical records and for transmission to physicians.People already use AI for this at work
- 10Take dictation using shorthand, a stenotype machine, or headsets and transcribing machines.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 loss64%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
88%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 24% 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 33% 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.