Health Informatics Specialists
- Bright Outlook
- Rapid Growth
Apply knowledge of nursing and informatics to assist in the design, development, and ongoing modification of computerized health care systems. May educate staff and assist in problem solving to promote the implementation of the health care system.
What you’d do
- Translate nursing practice information between nurses and systems engineers, analysts, or designers, using object-oriented models or other techniques.
- Use informatics science to design or implement health information technology applications for resolution of clinical or health care administrative problems.
- Develop or implement policies or practices to ensure the privacy, confidentiality, or security of patient information.
- Analyze and interpret patient, nursing, or information systems data to improve nursing services.
- Identify, collect, record, or analyze data relevant to the nursing care of patients.
- Apply knowledge of computer science, information science, nursing, and informatics theory to nursing practice, education, administration, or research, in collaboration with other health informatics specialists.
- Develop, implement, or evaluate health information technology applications, tools, processes, or structures to assist nurses with data management.
- Design, develop, select, test, implement, and evaluate new or modified informatics solutions, data structures, and decision-support mechanisms to support patients, health care professionals, and their information management and human-computer and human-technology interactions within health care contexts.
Skills that matter
- Reading Comprehension
- Complex Problem Solving
- Active Listening
- Critical Thinking
- Speaking
- Writing
How to get there
Extensive preparation: most need graduate school, such as a master's degree or higher
Also called
- Clinical Informaticist
- Clinical Informatics Specialist
- Health Informaticist
- Nursing Informatics Specialist
- Clinical Electronic Health Record Nurse (Clinical EHR Nurse)
- Clinical Informatics Analyst
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