Occupation

Medical Records Specialists

Compile, process, and maintain medical records of hospital and clinic patients in a manner consistent with medical, administrative, ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements of the healthcare system. Classify medical and healthcare concepts, including diagnosis, procedures, medical services, and equipment, into the healthcare industry's numerical coding system. Includes medical coders.

77 AI exposure

31 Human advantage

64 Market demand

56 AI leverage

Is Medical Records Specialists a safe career from AI?

Medical Records Specialists scores 77 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is high. A large share of this work is the kind current AI systems are measurably good at. That is not a prediction the job disappears, and the research does not support one. It means more of this role is likely to change than most.

Its human advantage score is 31, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. Market demand scores 64 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 7.8% over ten years.

What Medical Records Specialists pay

The median wage is $50,250 a year. The lower quarter earns under $41,600 and the upper quarter over $64,070. About 187,910 people do this work in the United States.

Where Medical Records Specialists can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators 86% of the skills carry over $77k median

Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants 86% of the skills carry over $74k median

Police Identification and Records Officers 79% of the skills carry over $94k median

Intelligence Analysts 79% of the skills carry over $94k median

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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