Health Sciences Broad Field

Alternative Job Titles for Health Informatics Specialists

• Clinical Electronic Health Record Nurse (Clinical EHR Nurse)
• Clinical Informaticist
• Clinical Informatics Analyst
• Clinical Informatics Nurse
• Clinical Informatics Specialist
• Health Informaticist
• Nursing Informatics Officer
• Nursing Informatics Specialist
• RN Clinical Information Systems Coordinator (Registered Nurse Clinical Information Systems Coordinator)
• RN Clinical Information Systems Educator (Registered Nurse Clinical Information Systems Educator)

Job Tasks and Activities for Health Informatics Specialists

• Analyze and interpret patient, nursing, or information systems data to improve nursing services.
• Analyze computer and information technologies to determine applicability to nursing practice, education, administration, and research.
• Analyze health-related data.
• Apply information technology to solve business or other applied problems.
• 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.
• Communicate project information to others.
• Conduct research to gain information about products or processes.
• Design healthcare-related software applications.
• Design research studies to obtain scientific information.
• Design, conduct, or provide support to nursing informatics research.
• 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.
• Develop computer or information security policies or procedures.
• Develop guidelines for system implementation.
• Develop or deliver training programs for health information technology, creating operating manuals as needed.
• Develop or implement policies or practices to ensure the privacy, confidentiality, or security of patient information.
• Develop strategies, policies or procedures for introducing, evaluating, or modifying information technology applied to nursing practice, administration, education, or research.
• Develop, implement, or evaluate health information technology applications, tools, processes, or structures to assist nurses with data management.
• Disseminate information about nursing informatics science and practice to the profession, other health care professions, nursing students, and the public.
• Document operational activities.
• Evaluate utility of software or hardware technologies.
• Identify, collect, record, or analyze data relevant to the nursing care of patients.
• Implement security measures for computer or information systems.
• Inform local, state, national, and international health policies related to information management and communication, confidentiality and security, patient safety, infrastructure development, and economics.
• Install computer software.
• Plan, install, repair, or troubleshoot telehealth technology applications or systems in homes.
• Provide consultation to nurses regarding hardware or software configuration.
• Provide recommendations to others about computer hardware.
• Provide technical information or assistance to public.
• Provide technical support for software maintenance or use.
• Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in informatics.
• Test computer system operations to ensure proper functioning.
• Train others in computer interface or software use.
• Translate nursing practice information between nurses and systems engineers, analysts, or designers, using object-oriented models or other techniques.
• Troubleshoot issues with computer applications or systems.
• Update knowledge about emerging industry or technology trends.
• Use informatics science to design or implement health information technology applications for resolution of clinical or health care administrative problems.

Interests for Health Informatics Specialists

• Investigative
  Studying and researching scientific subjects and human behavior.
• Conventional
  Following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting.
• Social
  Helping, teaching, advising, assisting, or providing service to others.

Skills for Health Informatics Specialists

In order of importance

• Reading Comprehension
  Reading work-related information.
  Importance: 85/100
• Complex Problem Solving
  Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
  Importance: 78/100
• Speaking
  Talking to others.
  Importance: 75/100
• Active Listening
  Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
  Importance: 75/100
• Writing
  Writing things for co-workers or customers.
  Importance: 75/100
• Critical Thinking
  Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.
  Importance: 75/100
• Judgment and Decision Making
  Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
  Importance: 72/100
• Systems Evaluation
  Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.
  Importance: 69/100
• Learning Strategies
  Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.
  Importance: 69/100
• Systems Analysis
  Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
  Importance: 69/100
• Active Learning
  Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.
  Importance: 69/100
• Monitoring
  Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
  Importance: 66/100
• Coordination
  Changing what is done based on other people's actions.
  Importance: 63/100
• Time Management
  Managing your time and the time of other people.
  Importance: 60/100
• Instructing
  Teaching people how to do something.
  Importance: 60/100
• Service Orientation
  Looking for ways to help people.
  Importance: 53/100
• Management of Personnel Resources
  Selecting and managing the best workers for a job.
  Importance: 53/100
• Social Perceptiveness
  Understanding people's reactions.
  Importance: 53/100
• Negotiation
  Bringing people together to solve differences.
  Importance: 50/100
• Mathematics
  Using math to solve problems.
  Importance: 50/100
• Persuasion
  Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.
  Importance: 50/100
• Programming
  Writing computer programs.
  Importance: 47/100
• Technology Design
  Making equipment and technology useful for customers.
  Importance: 44/100
• Operations Analysis
  Figuring out what a product or service needs to be able to do.
  Importance: 44/100
• Quality Control Analysis
  Testing how well a product or service works.
  Importance: 44/100
• Operations Monitoring
  Watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.
  Importance: 38/100
• Management of Financial Resources
  Making spending decisions and keeping track of what is spent.
  Importance: 28/100
• Science
  Using scientific rules and strategies to solve problems.
  Importance: 28/100
• Troubleshooting
  Figuring out what is causing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs to not work.
  Importance: 28/100
• Management of Material Resources
  Managing equipment and materials.
  Importance: 25/100
• Equipment Selection
  Deciding what kind of tools and equipment are needed to do a job.
  Importance: 19/100
• Operation and Control
  Using equipment or systems.
  Importance: 16/100
• Installation
  Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs.
  Importance: 10/100

Knowledge for Health Informatics Specialists

In order of importance

• Computers and Electronics
  Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
  Importance: 80/100
• English Language
  Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
  Importance: 76/100
• Medicine and Dentistry
  Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
  Importance: 68/100
• Education and Training
  Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
  Importance: 67/100
• Customer and Personal Service
  Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
  Importance: 64/100
• Administration and Management
  Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
  Importance: 62/100
• Mathematics
  Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
  Importance: 56/100
• Design
  Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
  Importance: 55/100
• Psychology
  Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
  Importance: 54/100
• Engineering and Technology
  Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
  Importance: 53/100
• Administrative
  Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
  Importance: 53/100
• Sociology and Anthropology
  Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
  Importance: 50/100
• Communications and Media
  Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
  Importance: 49/100
• Public Safety and Security
  Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
  Importance: 48/100
• Biology
  Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
  Importance: 43/100
• Telecommunications
  Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
  Importance: 43/100
• Personnel and Human Resources
  Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
  Importance: 38/100
• Law and Government
  Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
  Importance: 34/100
• Production and Processing
  Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
  Importance: 28/100
• Therapy and Counseling
  Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.
  Importance: 28/100
• Sales and Marketing
  Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
  Importance: 25/100
• Economics and Accounting
  Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
  Importance: 23/100
• Philosophy and Theology
  Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.
  Importance: 20/100
• Mechanical
  Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
  Importance: 13/100
• Foreign Language
  Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.
  Importance: 8/100
• Geography
  Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
  Importance: 7/100
• History and Archeology
  Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.
  Importance: 6/100
• Fine Arts
  Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
  Importance: 6/100
• Building and Construction
  Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
  Importance: 5/100
• Chemistry
  Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
  Importance: 5/100
• Physics
  Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.
  Importance: 5/100
• Transportation
  Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
  Importance: 3/100

Physical Abilities for Health Informatics Specialists

In order of importance

• Written Comprehension
  Reading and understanding what is written.
  Importance: 78/100
• Written Expression
  Communicating by writing.
  Importance: 75/100
• Problem Sensitivity
  Noticing when problems happen.
  Importance: 75/100
• Inductive Reasoning
  Making general rules or coming up with answers from lots of detailed information.
  Importance: 75/100
• Deductive Reasoning
  Using rules to solve problems.
  Importance: 75/100
• Oral Expression
  Communicating by speaking.
  Importance: 75/100
• Oral Comprehension
  Listening and understanding what people say.
  Importance: 72/100
• Fluency of Ideas
  Coming up with lots of ideas.
  Importance: 72/100
• Originality
  Creating new and original ideas.
  Importance: 72/100
• Speech Clarity
  Speaking clearly.
  Importance: 69/100
• Category Flexibility
  Grouping things in different ways.
  Importance: 69/100
• Near Vision
  Seeing details up close.
  Importance: 69/100
• Information Ordering
  Ordering or arranging things.
  Importance: 69/100
• Speech Recognition
  Recognizing spoken words.
  Importance: 66/100
• Mathematical Reasoning
  Choosing the right type of math to solve a problem.
  Importance: 53/100
• Flexibility of Closure
  Seeing hidden patterns.
  Importance: 50/100
• Selective Attention
  Paying attention to something without being distracted.
  Importance: 50/100
• Perceptual Speed
  Quickly comparing groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.
  Importance: 50/100
• Number Facility
  Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.
  Importance: 47/100
• Visualization
  Imagining how something will look after it is moved around or changed.
  Importance: 47/100
• Far Vision
  Seeing details that are far away.
  Importance: 44/100
• Speed of Closure
  Quickly knowing what you are looking at.
  Importance: 41/100
• Memorization
  Remembering words, numbers, pictures, or steps.
  Importance: 38/100
• Time Sharing
  Doing two or more things at the same time.
  Importance: 38/100
• Manual Dexterity
  Holding or moving items with your hands.
  Importance: 28/100
• Arm-Hand Steadiness
  Keeping your arm or hand steady.
  Importance: 28/100
• Visual Color Discrimination
  Noticing the difference between colors, including shades and brightness.
  Importance: 25/100
• Hearing Sensitivity
  Telling the difference between sounds.
  Importance: 25/100
• Auditory Attention
  Paying attention to one sound while there are other distracting sounds.
  Importance: 25/100
• Control Precision
  Quickly changing the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat.
  Importance: 25/100
• Finger Dexterity
  Putting together small parts with your fingers.
  Importance: 25/100
• Depth Perception
  Deciding which thing is closer or farther away from you, or deciding how far away it is from you.
  Importance: 25/100
• Trunk Strength
  Using your lower back and stomach.
  Importance: 22/100
• Wrist-Finger Speed
  Making fast, simple, repeated movements of your fingers, hands, and wrists.
  Importance: 19/100
• Dynamic Strength
  Exercising for a long time without your muscles getting tired.
  Importance: 6/100

Tools and Technology used by Health Informatics Specialists

• Desktop computers
• Liquid crystal display projector
• Medical picture archiving computer systems PACS
• Notebook computers
• Overhead projectors
• Personal computers
• Special purpose telephones
• Tablet computers
• Analytical or scientific software
  • IBM SPSS Statistics
  • SAS
• Business intelligence and data analysis software
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Qlik Tech QlikView
  • Qlik software
  • Tableau
• Calendar and scheduling software
  • McKesson ANSOS One-Staff
• Cloud-based data access and sharing software
  • Microsoft SharePoint
• Compliance software
  • Sparta Systems TrackWise
• Computer based training software
  • Learning management system LMS
• Customer relationship management CRM software
  • Salesforce software
• Data base management system software
  • Apache Hadoop
• Data base reporting software
  • SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports
• Data base user interface and query software
  • Microsoft Access
  • Structured query language SQL
• Development environment software
  • Software development tools
• Electronic mail software
  • Microsoft Outlook
• Geographic information system
  • ESRI ArcGIS software
• Internet browser software
  • Web browser software
• Medical software
  • Allscripts Professional EHR
  • Allscripts Sunrise
  • Amkai AmkaiCharts
  • Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMR
  • Cerner Millennium
  • Cerner PowerChart
  • ChartWare EMR
  • Computerized physician order entry CPOE software
  • Electronic medical administration record eMAR software
  • Epic Systems
  • GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
  • Healthcare management system
  • MEDITECH Healthcare Information System HCIS
  • MEDITECH software
  • Mediware ClosedLoop Clinical Systems
  • Mediware Information Systems MediCOE
  • Medscribbler Enterprise
  • MicroFour PracticeStudio.NET EMR
  • Netsmart Technologies CareNet
  • NextGen Healthcare Information Systems EMR
  • Picis CareSuite
  • SOAPware EMR
  • Seimens Healthineers
  • StatCom Patient Flow Logistics Enterprise Suite
  • SynaMed EMR
  • Texas Medical Software SpringCharts EMR
  • VISICU eICU Program
  • e-MDs software
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software
• Object or component oriented development software
  • Computer aided software engineering CASE tools
  • Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS
  • Perl
  • Python
  • R
• Office suite software
  • Microsoft Office software
• Operating system software
  • UNIX
• Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
• Process mapping and design software
  • Microsoft Visio
• Project management software
  • Microsoft Project
• Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
• Web platform development software
  • JavaScript
  • LAMP Stack
• Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word
  • Word processing software

Employment Industries for Health Informatics Specialists

• Computer systems design and related services
  115,500 employed
• Management of companies and enterprises
  54,300 employed
• Credit intermediation and related activities (5221,3)
  21,400 employed
• Local government, excluding education and hospitals
  19,100 employed
• Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  17,300 employed
• General medical and surgical hospitals; private
  16,900 employed
• State government, excluding education and hospitals
  17,100 employed
• Computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting, and related services
  16,600 employed
• Temporary help services
  14,200 employed
• Colleges, universities, and professional schools; state
  13,500 employed