Health Informatics Specialist

On the job, you would:

• 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.