How do they match: Health Informatics Specialists

  • Use informatics science to design or implement health information technology applications for resolution of clinical or health care administrative problems.
  • 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 or deliver training programs for health information technology, creating operating manuals as needed.
  • Translate nursing practice information between nurses and systems engineers, analysts, or designers, using object-oriented models or other techniques.

  • Provide technical support for software maintenance or use.
  • Train others in computer interface or software use.