Provide instructions to patients or family members concerning diagnoses or treatment plans.

“Provide instructions to patients or family members concerning diagnoses or treatment plans.” is a core task performed by Orthoptists. Among the occupation's 16 rated tasks, workers place it 14th 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.

• Explain medical information to patients or family members. in Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task 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 1.00. Automation potential label: T1.

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.

• 17% 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

• Examine patients with problems related to ocular motility, binocular vision, amblyopia, or strabismus. · importance 5.0
• Evaluate, diagnose, or treat disorders of the visual system with an emphasis on binocular vision or abnormal eye movements. · importance 5.0
• Perform diagnostic tests or measurements, such as motor testing, visual acuity testing, lensometry, retinoscopy, and color vision testing. · importance 4.9
• Provide nonsurgical interventions, including corrective lenses, patches, drops, fusion exercises, or stereograms, to treat conditions such as strabismus, heterophoria, and convergence insufficiency. · importance 4.9
• Develop nonsurgical treatment plans for patients with conditions such as strabismus, nystagmus, and other visual disorders. · importance 4.8
• Interpret clinical or diagnostic test results. · importance 4.7
• Develop or use special test and communication techniques to facilitate diagnosis and treatment of children or disabled patients. · importance 4.6
• Provide training related to clinical methods or orthoptics to students, resident physicians, or other health professionals. · importance 4.2
• Refer patients to ophthalmic surgeons or other physicians. · importance 4.0
• Prepare diagnostic or treatment reports for other medical practitioners or therapists. · importance 4.0
• Collaborate with ophthalmologists, optometrists, or other specialists in the diagnosis, treatment, or management of conditions such as glaucoma, cataracts, and retinal diseases. · importance 3.9
• Present or publish scientific papers. · importance 3.5
• Perform vision screening of children in schools or community health centers. · importance 3.5
• Participate in clinical research projects. · importance 3.3

See all tasks on the Orthoptists 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  = {Provide instructions to patients or family members concerning diagnoses or treatment plans.},
  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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