Jobs / Healthcare / 29-9021.00
Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars
Apply knowledge of healthcare and information systems to assist in the design, development, and continued modification and analysis of computerized healthcare systems. Abstract, collect, and analyze treatment and followup information of patients. May educate staff and assist in problem solving to promote the implementation of the healthcare information system. May design, develop, test, and implement databases with complete history, diagnosis, treatment, and health status to help monitor diseases.
- US jobs
- 38,100
- Median wage
- $68,020 a year
- Job family
- Healthcare
Can agents do the work of health information technologists and medical registrars?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Healthcare:
- Task levelPartialOne benchmark, from early 2025. On Stanford's MedAgentBench, where agents do clinical tasks in a simulated electronic health record, the best recorded model completes 69.7% of tasks (Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2). It has no maintained leaderboard, so newer models are not measured. No benchmark in our collection tests work with patients.
- Project levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. GDPval includes nurses among its 44 occupations. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons across all occupations. No benchmark in our collection tests clinical work over days, such as managing a patient's care.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in healthcare, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- 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.
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Medical Records Analyst · Medical Records Director · Applications Analyst · Cancer Registrar · Cancer Tumor Registrar · Certified Cancer Registrar · Certified Tumor Registrar (CTR) · Clinical Analyst · Clinical Data Specialist · Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialist (CDIS) · Compliance Coordinator · Data Integrity Specialist · Digital Health Technologist · Health Data Analyst · Health Information Administrator · Health Information Management Specialist · Health Information Management Technician (Health Information Management Tech) · Health Information Specialist · Health Information Technician · Health Information Technology Specialist · Health Records Technician (Health Records Tech) · Healthcare Data Analyst · MDS Coordinator (Minimum Data Set Coordinator) · Medical Care Evaluation Specialist · Medical Data Analyst · Medical Information Specialist · Medical Record Consultant · Medical Records Clerk · Public Health Registrar · ROI Specialist (Release of Information Specialist) · Severity of Illness Coordinator · Tumor Registrar · Utilization Review Coordinator