clinical coder

Clinical coders read patients' medical records. They analyse and interpret medical statements about diseases, injuries and procedures. Clinical coders convert this information into health classification codes in order to calculate treatment reimbursements, to produce statistics and to monitor health care performance.

The most in-demand skills for this role include medical terminology, professional documentation in health care, clinical coding, document management, manage healthcare users' data, maintain healthcare user data confidentiality. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives clinical coder a score of 0.59 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.