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Occupation

Health Informatics Specialists

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.

$105,850 medianBright outlookGraduate degree

O*NET 31.0 · 15-1211.01

A typical week, in the words of people in the job

  1. 01Translate nursing practice information between nurses and systems engineers, analysts, or designers, using object-oriented models or other techniques.
  2. 02Use informatics science to design or implement health information technology applications for resolution of clinical or health care administrative problems.
  3. 03Develop or implement policies or practices to ensure the privacy, confidentiality, or security of patient information.
  4. 04Analyze and interpret patient, nursing, or information systems data to improve nursing services.
  5. 05Identify, collect, record, or analyze data relevant to the nursing care of patients.
  6. 06Apply knowledge of computer science, information science, nursing, and informatics theory to nursing practice, education, administration, or research, in collaboration with other health informatics specialists.
  7. 07Develop, implement, or evaluate health information technology applications, tools, processes, or structures to assist nurses with data management.
  8. 08Design, 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.
  9. 09Disseminate information about nursing informatics science and practice to the profession, other health care professions, nursing students, and the public.
  10. 10Analyze computer and information technologies to determine applicability to nursing practice, education, administration, and research.
  11. 11Develop strategies, policies or procedures for introducing, evaluating, or modifying information technology applied to nursing practice, administration, education, or research.
  12. 12Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in informatics.

Task statements ranked by how many workers report them · O*NET 31.0

What the posting will be called

Clinical InformaticistClinical Informatics SpecialistHealth InformaticistNursing Informatics SpecialistClinical Electronic Health Record Nurse (Clinical EHR Nurse)Clinical Informatics AnalystClinical Informatics NurseNursing Informatics OfficerRN Clinical Information Systems Coordinator (Registered Nurse Clinical Information Systems Coordinator)RN Clinical Information Systems Educator (Registered Nurse Clinical Information Systems Educator)

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Knowledge the job leans on

Computers and ElectronicsEnglish LanguageMedicine and DentistryEducation and TrainingCustomer and Personal ServiceAdministration and ManagementMathematicsDesign

Skills that carry over from service

Complex Problem SolvingJudgment and Decision MakingSystems EvaluationSystems AnalysisCoordinationTime ManagementInstructingService Orientation