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Will AI replace Medical Records Specialists?

AI reaches most of this job’s work.

56/100

Very high exposure

More exposed to AI than 87% of US workers.

AI already used in
46% of the work
As AI tools mature: up to
90% of the work

What the job involves

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.

Where AI reaches the work

The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.

Already happening(8)

  • Review records for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with regulations.
  • Retrieve patient medical records for physicians, technicians, or other medical personnel.
  • Enter data, such as demographic characteristics, history and extent of disease, diagnostic procedures, or treatment into computer.
  • Compile and maintain patients' medical records to document condition and treatment and to provide data for research or cost control and care improvement efforts.
  • Identify, compile, abstract, and code patient data, using standard classification systems.

and 3 more

Within reach(7)

  • Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained.
  • Release information to persons or agencies according to regulations.
  • Scan patients' health records into electronic formats.
  • Maintain or operate a variety of health record indexes or storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store, or analyze information.
  • Process patient admission or discharge documents.

and 2 more

Out of reach(1)

  • 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.

Also called

Medical Coder · Certified Professional Coder (CPC) · CPC · Health Information Coder · Medical Records Custodian · Coder · Health Information Clerk · Health Information Specialist

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What these numbers mean

The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.

“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.

The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.

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