AI exposure Healthcare practitioners and technical
Will AI replace health information technologists and medical registrars?
Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars. US occupation 29-9021.
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30.6%
of the time health information technologists and medical registrars spend on their work goes on tasks where AI is already being used to do that work.of health information technologists and medical registrars' working hours go on tasks AI has already started taking off their plate.
Ranked 64 of 756 US occupations. More exposed than 91% of them.Further along than 91% of them.
Per cent of working time Square-law scale
Average US job 7.7%
One of the most exposed jobs in the country.Front of the queue for an AI assistant.
What AI already does for health information technologists and medical registrarsWhat health information technologists and medical registrars no longer do alone
O*NET lists 16 tasks for health information technologists and medical registrars. AI use at work shows up in 4 of them. Each score runs from 0.5, where every observed use helps a person with the task, to 1, where every use does the task outright.
- Retrieve patient medical records for physicians, technicians, or other medical personnel. mostly automated 1.00
- Identify, compile, abstract, and code patient data, using standard classification systems. mostly automated 0.98
- Prepare statistical reports, narrative reports, or graphic presentations of information, such as tumor registry data for use by hospital staff, researchers, or other users. mostly automated 0.91
- Write or maintain archived procedures, procedural codes, or queries for applications. automated and assisted 0.72
What it does not touch, yetWhat still needs a human
12 of the 16 tasks show no AI use at work in the data.
- Assign the patient to diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), using appropriate computer software.
- Compile medical care and census data for statistical reports on diseases treated, surgery performed, or use of hospital beds.
- Design databases to support healthcare applications, ensuring security, performance and reliability.
- Develop in-service educational materials.
- Evaluate and recommend upgrades or improvements to existing computerized healthcare systems.
- Facilitate and promote activities, such as lunches, seminars, or tours, to foster healthcare information privacy or security awareness within the organization.
Show the other 6
- Manage the department or supervise clerical workers, directing or controlling activities of personnel in the medical records department.
- Monitor changes in legislation and accreditation standards that affect information security or privacy in the computerized healthcare system.
- Plan, develop, maintain, or operate a variety of health record indexes or storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store, or analyze information.
- Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained.
- 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.
- Train medical records staff.
How that compares
Among the 65 healthcare practitioners and technical occupations, health information technologists and medical registrars rank 2. The group averages 4.1%, and its most exposed job is Medical Records Specialists at 66.7%. The average US occupation sits at 7.7%.
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What this does and does not mean
Exposure is observed use, not a forecast. Anthropic maps work conversations with Claude onto the tasks O*NET lists for each job and asks, of the tasks AI could speed up, which are actually being used for at work. A use that does the task outright counts in full and a use that assists a person counts half. The task scores are averaged into the occupation figure by the share of time spent on each task.
A high figure means AI is already part of how this work gets done. It does not mean anyone has been replaced. Anthropic's own reading of the labour market finds no systematic rise in unemployment among exposed workers so far, and about 14% fewer 22 to 25 year olds starting exposed jobs.No measurable rise in unemployment among exposed workers so far, and about 14% fewer 22 to 25 year olds starting these jobs. Gap years for everyone. Labor market impacts, 5 March 2026.
Task list and titles from O*NET 31.0 by the US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, used under the CC BY 4.0 licence. Scores from the Anthropic Economic Index (CC BY). Checked 1 November 2026. How the ranking works.