Diagnose, treat, and help prevent diseases using a system of practice that is based on the natural healing capacity of individuals. May use physiological, psychological or mechanical methods. May also use natural medicines, prescription or legend drugs, foods, herbs, or other natural remedies.
19 of 20 tasks have some AI capability
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Interview patients to document symptoms and health histories.
AI: Fully automatable - AI conversational agents can reliably conduct structured patient interviews to elicit symptoms and history and produce usable interview transcripts and summaries.
Document patients' histories, including identifying data, chief complaints, illnesses, previous medical or family histories, or psychosocial characteristics.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can accurately document and structure patient histories—including demographics, chief complaints, medical and family history, and psychosocial details—based on interviews and records.
Advise patients about therapeutic exercise and nutritional medicine regimens.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can generate tailored therapeutic exercise programs and nutritional medicine regimens based on guidelines and individual data and provide ongoing adjustments and education, though clinical oversight may be desirable.
Educate patients about health care management.
AI: Fully automatable - AI can fully provide tailored, evidence-based patient education and self-management guidance at scale.
Obtain medical records from previous physicians or other health care providers for the purpose of patient evaluation.
AI: Fully automatable - AI and automation can fully handle obtaining, aggregating, and extracting information from prior medical records via interoperability, APIs, and document processing workflows.
Monitor updates from public health agencies to keep abreast of health trends.
AI: Fully automatable - AI systems can automatically ingest, monitor, and summarize public health agency updates and alert clinicians to emerging trends in real time.
Report patterns of patients' health conditions, such as disease status and births, to public health agencies.
AI: Fully automatable - EHR integrations, NLP, and automated reporting tools already extract and transmit notifiable condition patterns to public health agencies reliably.
Administer, dispense, or prescribe natural medicines such as food or botanical extracts, herbs, dietary supplements, vitamins, nutraceuticals, and amino acids.
AI: Partial - AI can recommend and support selection of natural medicines using evidence and interactions data but cannot legally or safely perform dispensing/administration or substitute for licensed prescribing in many jurisdictions.
Conduct physical examinations and physiological function tests for diagnostic purposes.
AI: Partial - AI can assist with remote monitoring and interpret sensor data but cannot perform hands-on physical examinations or many in-person physiological tests.
Diagnose health conditions based on patients' symptoms and health histories, laboratory and diagnostic radiology test results, or other physiological measurements, such as electrocardiograms and electroencephalographs.
AI: Partial - AI can generate differential diagnoses from symptoms, histories, and test results but cannot fully replace clinician judgment, responsibility, and integration of complex contextual factors.
Maintain professional development through activities such as post-graduate education, continuing education, preceptorships, and residency programs.
AI: Partial - AI can support continuing education, curate learning resources, and simulate cases but cannot fully substitute experiential components like residencies and real-world preceptorships.
Administer treatments or therapies, such as homeopathy, hydrotherapy, Oriental or Ayurvedic medicine, electrotherapy and diathermy, using physical agents including air, heat, cold, water, sound, or ultraviolet light to catalyze the body to heal itself.
AI: Partial - AI can guide protocols and control some therapeutic devices but cannot independently administer many hands-on or manually nuanced therapies in clinical practice.
Consult with other health professionals to provide optimal patient care, referring patients to traditional health care professionals as necessary.
AI: Partial - AI can facilitate information-sharing, generate consult summaries, and recommend referrals but cannot fully replicate the professional judgment and interpersonal aspects of clinician-to-clinician consultation.
Prescribe synthetic drugs under the supervision of medical doctors or within the allowances of regulatory bodies.
AI: Partial - AI can recommend drug choices and dosing within guidelines but cannot legally and independently prescribe synthetic drugs without a supervising licensed clinician in most jurisdictions.
Order diagnostic imaging procedures such as radiographs (x-rays), ultrasounds, mammograms, and bone densitometry tests, or refer patients to other health professionals for these procedures.
AI: Partial - AI can triage and recommend appropriate imaging and trigger orders within integrated systems, but orders typically require clinician authorization and oversight.
Perform venipuncture or skin pricking to collect blood samples.
AI: Partial - Robotic phlebotomy prototypes and guided devices can collect blood in controlled settings, but routine, autonomous venipuncture/skin pricks still require human skill and supervision.
Conduct periodic public health maintenance activities such as immunizations and screenings for diseases and disease risk factors.
AI: Partial - AI can automate scheduling, risk stratification, and screening workflows, but administration of immunizations and many screening procedures remain hands‑on clinical tasks.
Perform minor surgical procedures, such as removing warts, moles, or cysts, sampling tissues for skin cancer or lipomas, and applying or removing sutures.
AI: Partial - AI and robotic assistance can support planning and guidance, but fully autonomous performance of varied minor surgical dermatologic procedures is not widely validated or deployed.
Treat minor cuts, abrasions, or contusions.
AI: Partial - AI can support wound assessment, triage, and dressing guidance, but hands‑on cleaning and treatment of cuts/abrasions still require human providers or caregivers.
Perform mobilizations and high-velocity adjustments to joints or soft tissues, using principles of massage, stretching, or resistance.
AI: Not automatable - AI cannot perform manual mobilizations or high-velocity joint/soft-tissue adjustments that require nuanced tactile feedback and real-time hands-on skill.