Health Informatics Specialists in Nursing

Key Responsibilities

• Provide consultation to nurses regarding hardware or software configuration.
• 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.
• Analyze and interpret patient, nursing, or information systems data to improve nursing services.
• Plan, install, repair, or troubleshoot telehealth technology applications or systems in homes.
• Analyze computer and information technologies to determine applicability to nursing practice, education, administration, and research.
• Use informatics science to design or implement health information technology applications for resolution of clinical or health care administrative problems.
• Develop strategies, policies or procedures for introducing, evaluating, or modifying information technology applied to nursing practice, administration, education, or research.
• Disseminate information about nursing informatics science and practice to the profession, other health care professions, nursing students, and the public.
• Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in informatics.
• Translate nursing practice information between nurses and systems engineers, analysts, or designers, using object-oriented models or other techniques.
• Develop or deliver training programs for health information technology, creating operating manuals as needed.
• Inform local, state, national, and international health policies related to information management and communication, confidentiality and security, patient safety, infrastructure development, and economics.
• 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.
• Design, conduct, or provide support to nursing informatics research.
• Develop or implement policies or practices to ensure the privacy, confidentiality, or security of patient information.
• Identify, collect, record, or analyze data relevant to the nursing care of patients.