Midwives

Maintain documentation of all patients' contacts, reviewing and updating records as necessary.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can reliably transcribe encounters, summarize visits, populate EHR fields, maintain audit logs, and automatically review and update patient contact records.

Counsel women regarding the nutritional requirements of pregnancy.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can deliver evidence‑based, personalized nutrition counseling, education, and meal planning for pregnancy without requiring physical intervention.

Estimate patients' due dates and re-evaluate as necessary based on examination results.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can accurately calculate and re-evaluate estimated due dates from LMP, ultrasound, and examination data using established formulas and algorithms.

Provide information about the physical and emotional processes involved in the pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum periods.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can provide comprehensive, evidence-based information about the physical and emotional processes of pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum for patient education.

Complete birth certificates.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can auto-populate and prepare birth certificate forms from EHR data and workflows, though final legal signing or filing may require human action.

Refer patients to specialists for procedures such as ultrasounds or biophysical profiles.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can identify indications for specialist procedures and auto-generate referrals/orders within clinical workflows, even though clinician approval is often part of the process.

Provide postpartum patients with contraceptive and family planning information.

AI: Fully automatable - Providing contraceptive and family planning information is well within AI capabilities—AI can deliver accurate, personalized information and actionable referrals without needing to perform physical procedures.

Inform patients of how to prepare and supply birth sites.

AI: Fully automatable - Informing patients how to prepare and supply birth sites is an informational task AI can fully automate by generating tailored checklists and supply lists.

Provide information about community health and social resources.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can reliably aggregate and provide up‑to‑date information about community health and social resources and connect patients to services when integrated with local directories.

Compile and evaluate clinical practice statistics.

AI: Fully automatable - Given access to clinical data, modern AI analytics can compile, aggregate, and evaluate practice statistics and generate interpretable reports and trends with human oversight.

Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations.

AI: Partial - AI can continuously analyze and alert on vital signs and uterine contraction data and support decision-making, but cannot perform physical examinations or assume full clinical responsibility in labor monitoring.

Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation.

AI: Partial - AI can interpret fetal heart rate recordings and imaging (e.g., ultrasound) and estimate growth from measurements, but cannot perform palpation or independently conduct hands‑on assessments.

Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, or retarded fetal growth.

AI: Partial - AI can analyze vitals, labs, and imaging to identify and monitor hypertension, gestational diabetes, preterm labor, or growth restriction and suggest management, but cannot autonomously deliver treatments or make final clinical decisions.

Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation.

AI: Partial - AI can provide decision support, real‑time guidance, and monitor neonatal vitals, but cannot physically perform hands‑on emergency care such as neonatal resuscitation.

Establish and follow emergency or contingency plans for mothers and newborns.

AI: Partial - AI can generate emergency/contingency plans, trigger protocols, and coordinate logistics, but cannot execute hands‑on emergency interventions or assume legal responsibility in acute crises.

Identify tubal and ectopic pregnancies and refer patients for treatments.

AI: Partial - AI can flag suspected tubal or ectopic pregnancies by analyzing symptoms, labs, and ultrasound images and prompt urgent referral, but cannot perform definitive diagnostics or surgical treatment itself.

Perform post-partum health assessments of mothers and babies at regular intervals.

AI: Partial - AI can collect remote data, screen for postpartum concerns, and schedule follow‑ups, but cannot perform hands‑on physical examinations or interventions required in many postpartum assessments.

Assess the status of post-date pregnancies to determine treatments and interventions.

AI: Partial - AI can assess post‑date pregnancy status using data and guidelines to recommend monitoring or induction, but cannot perform obstetric interventions or make autonomous treatment decisions.

Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health.

AI: Partial - AI can continuously aggregate symptoms, vitals, and screening tools to monitor prenatal physical and emotional health, but cannot replace hands‑on exams or final clinician judgment.

Obtain complete health and medical histories from patients including medical, surgical, reproductive, or mental health histories.

AI: Partial - AI can conduct structured intake interviews and synthesize medical, surgical, reproductive, and mental health histories but cannot reliably replace clinician probing, nuance interpretation, and verification.

Set up or monitor the administration of oxygen or medications.

AI: Partial - AI can monitor oxygen/medication delivery data, detect anomalies, and alert staff but cannot physically set up or administer oxygen or medications.

Evaluate patients' laboratory and medical records, requesting assistance from other practitioners when necessary.

AI: Partial - AI can review labs and records, flag abnormalities, and suggest consultant involvement but lacks autonomous clinical responsibility and nuanced judgment in complex cases.

Assist maternal patients to find physical positions that will facilitate childbirth.

AI: Partial - AI can coach patients on positions and provide visual or sensor-guided suggestions to facilitate childbirth but cannot deliver hands-on physical assistance.

Provide comfort and relaxation measures for mothers in labor through interventions such as massage, breathing techniques, hydrotherapy, or music.

AI: Partial - AI can guide breathing, play music, suggest timing, and propose relaxation techniques but cannot perform hands-on measures like massage or operate hydrotherapy equipment.

Develop, implement, or evaluate individualized plans for midwifery care.

AI: Partial - AI can propose and evaluate individualized midwifery care plans based on data and guidelines but cannot fully replace clinician judgment, implementation, and dynamic in-person adjustments.

Test patients' hemoglobin, hematocrit, and blood glucose levels.

AI: Partial - AI cannot perform physical sample collection or run point‑of‑care tests, but can guide testing procedures and interpret hemoglobin, hematocrit, and glucose results.

Recommend the use of vitamin and mineral supplements to enhance the health of patients and children.

AI: Partial - AI can generate evidence‑based supplement recommendations and tailored counseling, but clinical judgment and prescribing authority remain with human providers.

Respond to breech birth presentations by applying methods such as exercises or external version.

AI: Partial - AI can provide decision support, contraindication checks, and stepwise guidance for maneuvers like external cephalic version, but cannot perform hands‑on obstetric interventions.

Incorporate research findings into practice as appropriate.

AI: Partial - AI can rapidly synthesize and flag relevant research and suggest practice changes, but human clinicians must evaluate applicability and implement changes in context.

Assess birthing environments to ensure cleanliness, safety, and the availability of appropriate supplies.

AI: Partial - AI can supply checklists, remote assessment tools, and risk‑identification guidance for birthing environments, but cannot replace in‑person physical inspection and remediation.

Provide, or refer patients to other providers for, education or counseling on topics such as genetic testing, newborn care, contraception, or breastfeeding.

AI: Partial - AI can provide comprehensive educational materials and referral recommendations for genetic testing, newborn care, contraception, and breastfeeding, yet complex counseling and formal referrals often require human oversight.

Treat patients' symptoms with alternative health care methods such as herbs or hydrotherapy.

AI: Partial - AI can recommend evidence‑based alternative therapies and safety precautions, but cannot administer hands‑on treatments like hydrotherapy or safely manage herbal therapy without clinician involvement.

Collaborate in research studies.

AI: Partial - AI can assist heavily in research tasks (literature review, data analysis, protocol drafting) but cannot fully take on responsibilities requiring human judgement, ethics approvals, patient consent, and leadership.

Suture perineal lacerations.

AI: Not automatable - Suturing perineal lacerations requires hands‑on surgical skill, tactile feedback, and clinical judgment that AI cannot autonomously provide in 2025.

Collect specimens for use in laboratory tests.

AI: Not automatable - Collecting physical specimens requires hands‑on clinical procedures and consent that AI cannot perform or replace.