Retrieve patient medical records for physicians, technicians, or other medical personnel.

“Retrieve patient medical records for physicians, technicians, or other medical personnel.” is a task performed by Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars. Among the occupation's 16 rated tasks, workers place it 3rd by importance (#14 most important).

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.

• Perform administrative or clerical activities. in Performing Administrative Activities

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: T3.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Assign the patient to diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), using appropriate computer software.
• Compile medical care and census data for statistical reports on diseases treated, surgery performed, or use of hospital beds.
• Design databases to support healthcare applications, ensuring security, performance and reliability.
• Develop in-service educational materials.
• Evaluate and recommend upgrades or improvements to existing computerized healthcare systems.
• Facilitate and promote activities, such as lunches, seminars, or tours, to foster healthcare information privacy or security awareness within the organization.
• Identify, compile, abstract, and code patient data, using standard classification systems.
• Manage the department or supervise clerical workers, directing or controlling activities of personnel in the medical records department.
• Monitor changes in legislation and accreditation standards that affect information security or privacy in the computerized healthcare system.
• Plan, develop, maintain, or operate a variety of health record indexes or storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store, or analyze information.
• Prepare statistical reports, narrative reports, or graphic presentations of information, such as tumor registry data for use by hospital staff, researchers, or other users.
• Protect the security of medical records to ensure that confidentiality is maintained.
• Resolve or clarify codes or diagnoses with conflicting, missing, or unclear information by consulting with doctors or others or by participating in the coding team's regular meetings.
• Train medical records staff.

See all tasks on the Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars 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
• “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  = {Retrieve patient medical records for physicians, technicians, or other medical personnel.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-22907}
}