Interview patients to gather medical information.

Interview patients to gather medical information. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 5 occupations and seen in 5 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Interview people to obtain information. in Getting Information .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 5 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 3 (60%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 1 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.010% per task.

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Confer with clients about their medical histories and problems with stress or pain to determine how massage will be most helpful. · Massage Therapists · importance 4.8 · no direct exposure
• Interview patients to obtain medical information and measure their vital signs, weight, and height. · Medical Assistants · importance 4.8 · exposure with tools
• Communicate with patients to ascertain feelings or need for assistance or social and emotional support. · Nursing Assistants · importance 4.4 · no direct exposure
• Take and record medical and dental histories and vital signs of patients. · Dental Assistants · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Interview patients upon admission and record information. · Psychiatric Aides · importance 4.0 · direct LLM exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Massage Therapists
• Medical Assistants
• Nursing Assistants
• Dental Assistants
• Psychiatric Aides

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.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

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  title  = {Interview patients to gather medical information.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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}