Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars
Apply knowledge of healthcare and information systems to assist in the design, development, and continued modification and analysis of computerized healthcare systems. Abstract, collect, and analyze treatment and followup information of patients. May educate staff and assist in problem solving to promote the implementation of the healthcare information system. May design, develop, test, and implement databases with complete history, diagnosis, treatment, and health status to help monitor diseases.
38,100 people do this job in the US. $68,020 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
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Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 6%. Today's estimate: 9%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 16 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design databases to support healthcare applications, ensuring security, performance and reliability. | 35% | 4.2 work days6.7 h to 1.7 work weeks | 0%Half by Nov 2028 | |
| Evaluate and recommend upgrades or improvements to existing computerized healthcare systems. | 14% | 1.7 work days3.3 h to 4.2 work days | 2%Half by Feb 2028 | |
| Plan, develop, maintain, or operate a variety of health record indexes or storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store, or analyze information. | 14% | 1.7 work days3.3 h to 1 work week | 2%Half by Apr 2028 | |
| Develop in-service educational materials. | 7% | 6.7 h1.7 h to 2.1 work days | 9%Half by Aug 2027 | |
| Prepare statistical reports, narrative reports, or graphic presentations of information, such as tumor registry data for use by hospital staff, researchers, or other users. AI observed on this task. | 7% | 6.7 h2.5 h to 2.5 work days | 9%Half by Jul 2027 | |
| Compile medical care and census data for statistical reports on diseases treated, surgery performed, or use of hospital beds. | 3% | 3.3 h50 min to 6.7 h | 32%Half by Jan 2027 | |
| Facilitate and promote activities, such as lunches, seminars, or tours, to foster healthcare information privacy or security awareness within the organization. | 3% | 3.3 h50 min to 1 work day | Stays with people | |
| Manage the department or supervise clerical workers, directing or controlling activities of personnel in the medical records department. | 3% | 3.3 h50 min to 1 work day | 28%Half by Feb 2027 | |
| Monitor changes in legislation and accreditation standards that affect information security or privacy in the computerized healthcare system. | 3% | 3.3 h50 min to 1.3 work days | 25%Half by Mar 2027 | |
| Train medical records staff. | 3% | 3.3 h50 min to 1.3 work days | Stays with people | |
| Write or maintain archived procedures, procedural codes, or queries for applications. AI observed on this task. | 3% | 3.3 h50 min to 6.7 h | 32%Half by Jan 2027 | |
| Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained. | 0.9% | 50 min13 min to 1.7 h | 90%Half by now |
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