Health Informatics Specialists
Health ScienceO*NET 15-1211.01United States
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.
- Median annual earnings
- $105,429
- Projected change
- +11.4%
- Typical education
- Master's or Professional degree
- Employment
- 540.95K jobs
50th percentile, United States
2025 to 2035
57.1% of the workforce
Growing to 602.62K by 2035
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The work
What health informatics specialists do
Tasks reported for this occupation, ordered by how often they come up in the role.
- 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.
- 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, 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.
- Analyze computer and information technologies to determine applicability to nursing practice, education, administration, and research.
- Develop strategies, policies or procedures for introducing, evaluating, or modifying information technology applied to nursing practice, administration, education, or research.
- Design, conduct, or provide support to nursing informatics research.
- Develop or deliver training programs for health information technology, creating operating manuals as needed.
- Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in informatics.
- Inform local, state, national, and international health policies related to information management and communication, confidentiality and security, patient safety, infrastructure development, and economics.
- Provide consultation to nurses regarding hardware or software configuration.
Pay and outlook
What the job pays and where it is heading
Annual earnings range
Reported earnings by percentile, United States
- 10th percentile
- $66,083
- 25th percentile
- $81,982
- 50th percentile
- $105,429
- 75th percentile
- $135,278
- 90th percentile
- $172,343
The gold marker shows the median. Half earn more than $105,429 and half earn less.
Employment outlook
2025 to 2035 projection
+11.4%faster than average
2025540,951 jobs
2035 projected602,618 jobs
61,667 more positions over the decade, before replacement hiring.
Preparation
Education levels
What people currently working in the career hold. These are not entry requirements.
- Master's or Professional degree
- 57.1%
- Bachelor's degree
- 28.6%
- Certificate
- 4.8%
- Associate degree
- 4.8%
- Doctoral degree or more
- 4.8%
Skills
Skills employers ask for
Technical skills appearing most often in job postings for this occupation.
How the work gets done
Core competencies
Broad capabilities associated with strong performance in this occupation.
- Reading Comprehension
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Complex Problem Solving
- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Critical Thinking
- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Active Listening
- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Writing
- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Speaking
- Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Active Learning
- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Systems Evaluation
- Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Systems Analysis
- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Learning Strategies
- Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Monitoring
- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Coordination
- Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Instructing
- Teaching others how to do something.
- Time Management
- Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Social Perceptiveness
- Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Service Orientation
- Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Persuasion
- Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Mathematics
- Using mathematics to solve problems.
In the market
Job titles and employers
Recent job postings in United StatesCommon job titles
- 01Healthcare Data Analysts489 postings
- 02Analytics Consultants470 postings
- 03Healthcare Analysts402 postings
- 04Health Information Management Managers357 postings
- 05Performance Analysts308 postings
- 06Field Clinical Specialists287 postings
- 07Case Analysts281 postings
- 08Reimbursement Analysts236 postings
- 09Utilization Review Specialists223 postings
- 10EDI Analysts188 postings
- 11Utilization Review Coordinators180 postings
- 12Utilization Reviewers168 postings
- 13Analysts163 postings
- 14Clinical Analysts160 postings
- 15Clinical Specialists159 postings
- 16Healthcare Consultants155 postings
- 17Health Information Managers151 postings
- 18Health Information Supervisors142 postings
- 19Reporting Analysts128 postings
- 20Payment Analysts112 postings
Top employers
- 01CVS Health560 postings
- 02Accenture439 postings
- 03Molina Healthcare419 postings
- 04Stiftelsen Norstella410 postings
- 05TriWest Healthcare Alliance394 postings
- 06Evolent367 postings
- 07Elevance Health282 postings
- 08Intermountain Health253 postings
- 09Humana180 postings
- 10Uhs180 postings
- 11Signature Performance152 postings
- 12UnitedHealth Group145 postings
- 13Edwards Lifesciences139 postings
- 14Centene132 postings
- 15Prime Therapeutics129 postings
- 16The Hartford127 postings
- 17St George Tanaq Corporation124 postings
- 18Stryker124 postings
- 19Highmark Health116 postings
- 20Cardinal Health115 postings
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