Develop or implement policies or practices to ensure the privacy, confidentiality, or security of patient information.

“Develop or implement policies or practices to ensure the privacy, confidentiality, or security of patient information.” is a core task performed by Health Informatics Specialists. Among the occupation's 17 rated tasks, workers place it 15th by importance (#3 most important). About 100% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Implement security measures for computer or information systems. in Working with Computers
• Develop operational or technical procedures or standards. in Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T2.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.055% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 52% of that use is work-related
• Most common interaction: learning
• Average autonomy of the AI: 3.2 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 96% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Working with AI vs. handing it off

Of the AI conversations mapped to this task, the split between people working alongside AI and people delegating the task to it.

How people interact with AI on this task

Other tasks in this occupation

• Translate nursing practice information between nurses and systems engineers, analysts, or designers, using object-oriented models or other techniques. · importance 4.8
• Use informatics science to design or implement health information technology applications for resolution of clinical or health care administrative problems. · importance 4.7
• Analyze and interpret patient, nursing, or information systems data to improve nursing services. · importance 4.3
• Identify, collect, record, or analyze data relevant to the nursing care of patients. · importance 4.2
• Apply knowledge of computer science, information science, nursing, and informatics theory to nursing practice, education, administration, or research, in collaboration with other health informatics specialists. · importance 4.2
• Develop, implement, or evaluate health information technology applications, tools, processes, or structures to assist nurses with data management. · importance 4.2
• Design, develop, select, test, implement, and evaluate new or modified informatics solutions, data structures, and decision-support mechanisms to support patients, health care professionals, and their information management and human-computer and human-technology interactions within health care contexts. · importance 4.1
• Disseminate information about nursing informatics science and practice to the profession, other health care professions, nursing students, and the public. · importance 4.0
• Analyze computer and information technologies to determine applicability to nursing practice, education, administration, and research. · importance 3.9
• Develop strategies, policies or procedures for introducing, evaluating, or modifying information technology applied to nursing practice, administration, education, or research. · importance 3.8
• Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in informatics. · importance 3.7
• Design, conduct, or provide support to nursing informatics research. · importance 3.7
• Develop or deliver training programs for health information technology, creating operating manuals as needed. · importance 3.7
• Inform local, state, national, and international health policies related to information management and communication, confidentiality and security, patient safety, infrastructure development, and economics. · importance 3.7

See all tasks on the Health Informatics Specialists page.

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  = {Develop or implement policies or practices to ensure the privacy, confidentiality, or security of patient 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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}