Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other
The short answer
Parts of this job are expected to change. AI can already assist with some of its tasks. In New York State, the number of these jobs is expected to grow over the next decade, with about 874 openings expected each year.
Where your job stands
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the middle fifth for how much AI could touch it—right around the middle.
How much AI could touch this job
Looking at the job itself, AI could help with about a quarter of this job's tasks.
What this means
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the middle fifth, out of 656 jobs we could rank. Read more in the methodology.
What AI can and can’t help with in this job
The score comes from the real, day-to-day tasks of this job—not a guess about the job as a whole. Below are the tasks that matter most in this job, split by whether AI can help with them.
AI can help with or automate about 73% of the tasks in this job.
Tasks AI can help with or automate
Indicate artifacts or interferences derived from sources outside of the brain, such as poor electrode contact or patient movement, on electroneurodiagnostic recordings.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Monitor patients during tests or surgeries, using electroencephalographs (EEG), evoked potential (EP) instruments, or video recording equipment.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Conduct tests or studies such as electroencephalography (EEG), polysomnography (PSG), nerve conduction studies (NCS), electromyography (EMG), and intraoperative monitoring (IOM).
AI could help, but needs extra software
Take and document patients' medical histories.
AI could do much of this on its own
Collect patients' medical information needed to customize tests.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Tasks AI can't do much of
Conduct tonometry or tonography tests to measure intraocular pressure.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Explain testing procedures to patients, answering questions or reassuring patients, as needed.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Set up, program, or record montages or electrical combinations when testing peripheral nerve, spinal cord, subcortical, or cortical responses.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Attach electrodes to patients, using adhesives.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Measure patients' body parts and mark locations where electrodes are to be placed.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
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