Career Explorer Healthcare (clinical)
Human edge, growing
Health technologists and technicians, all other
All health technologists and technicians not listed separately.
More resilient than most: more resilient than 64% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is moderate (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it high), and US jobs are projected to change by +5.9% by 2035, faster than average. The work leans on emotional intelligence and ethical judgement.
AI struggles with much of this work, and US employers are expected to hire more people into it than average.
- Median pay (2025)
- $50,290
- Job growth to 2035
- +5.9%
- Openings a year
- 12,400
- People doing it (2025)
- 186,000
- Usual route in
- College certificate
Where people already use AI for this work
- Explain medical information to patients or family members
- Adjust equipment to ensure adequate performance
- Maintain current knowledge in area of expertise
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Administer diagnostic tests to assess patient health
- Operate medical equipment
- Examine people or animals to assess health conditions or physical characteristics
What the work looks like
- Indicate artifacts or interferences derived from sources outside of the brain, such as poor electrode contact or patient movement, on electroneurodiagnostic recordings.
- Conduct tonometry or tonography tests to measure intraocular pressure.
- Monitor patients during tests or surgeries, using electroencephalographs (EEG), evoked potential (EP) instruments, or video recording equipment.
- Conduct tests or studies such as electroencephalography (EEG), polysomnography (PSG), nerve conduction studies (NCS), electromyography (EMG), and intraoperative monitoring (IOM).
- Take and document patients' medical histories.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
What the Bureau of Labor Statistics expects
- Fewer of these jobs, as the number of respiratory therapy technicians decreases because these workers are no longer credentialed separately from respiratory therapists.
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
- Medical assistantsHuman edge, growing, Index 89, +12.9%
- Hearing aid specialistsHuman edge, growing, Index 89, +19.4%
- Psychiatric aidesHuman edge, steady, Index 86, +1.9%
- Healthcare support workers, all otherHuman edge, growing, Index 83, +4.8%
Also known as: Certified Neurodiagnostic Technologist, Electroneurodiagnostic Technologist (END Technologist), Registered Electroencephalogram Technologist (Registered EEG Tech), Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT), Certified Ophthalmic Medical Technologist (COMT), Ophthalmic Medical Technologist (Ophthalmic Medical Tech), Ophthalmic Technologist (Ophthalmic Tech), Surgical Coordinator.
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.