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Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient care

Work activity · O*NET

Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient care is an intermediate work activity in the O*NET database — a concrete task that recurs across many occupations , grouped under Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates. 83 occupations report doing it as part of their work.

What it involves

The most common detailed activities O*NET records under this category, ranked by how many occupation tasks map to each.

  • Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment
  • Inform medical professionals regarding patient conditions and care
  • Collaborate with other professionals to assess client needs or plan treatments
  • Communicate test or assessment results to medical professionals
  • Confer with other professionals to plan patient care
  • Communicate patient status to other health practitioners

How AI is applied to this activity

Microsoft's "Working with AI" study mapped real Bing Copilot conversations to O*NET work activities. The figures below are their measurements for this activity — they describe how AI is used today in one assistant's data, not a forecast that the activity will be automated.

AI completes it successfully 100.0% When Copilot attempts this activity, how often it finishes the task
Scope AI handles 0.0% How much of the activity AI carries within a conversation
Positive user feedback 83.3% Share of interactions users rated positively
How often AI is applied here 19th pct Percentile across all measured activities by how often AI performs them

Source: Microsoft "Working with AI" (working-with-ai). A high completion rate means AI can assist the activity in isolation — it does not mean an occupation that performs it is being automated, since every job blends many activities.

Detailed work activities

The more granular units of work O*NET groups under this activity, ordered by how many occupations perform them.

Occupations that perform this activity

Ranked by how many of the occupation's tasks map to this activity.

Occupation Tasks
Cytogenetic Technologists 4
Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselors 4
Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses 3
Anesthesiologists 3
Dietetic Technicians 3
Emergency Medical Technicians 3
Music Therapists 3
Occupational Therapy Assistants 3
Paramedics 3
Radiologists 3
Registered Nurses 3
Respiratory Therapists 3
Speech-Language Pathologists 3
Acute Care Nurses 2
Art Therapists 2
Athletic Trainers 2
Audiologists 2
Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians 2
Critical Care Nurses 2
Cytotechnologists 2
Diagnostic Medical Sonographers 2
Emergency Medicine Physicians 2
Hospitalists 2
Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses 2
Marriage and Family Therapists 2
Mental Health Counselors 2
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers 2
Neurologists 2
Nurse Midwives 2
Phlebotomists 2
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians 2
Physical Therapist Assistants 2
Physicians, Pathologists 2
Psychiatric Technicians 2
Radiation Therapists 2
Radiologic Technologists and Technicians 2
Recreational Therapists 2
Surgical Assistants 2
Allergists and Immunologists 1
Cardiologists 1

Showing 40 of 83 occupations.

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 27 occupations in occupations that perform Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient care.. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Surgical Assistants Physical Therapist Assistants Phlebotomists Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses Respiratory Therapists Occupational Therapy Assistants Diagnostic Medical Sonographers Radiation Therapists Athletic Trainers Radiologic Technologists and Technicians Nurse Midwives Dietetic Technicians Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers Speech-Language Pathologists Marriage and Family Therapists AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that perform Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient care., by AI task-overlap and median pay

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient care." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/activities/confer-with-healthcare-or-other-professionals-about-patient-care

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient care. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/activities/confer-with-healthcare-or-other-professionals-about-patient-care

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-confer-with-healthcare-or-other-professionals-about-patient-care,
  title  = {Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient care},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/activities/confer-with-healthcare-or-other-professionals-about-patient-care}
}

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