Health Informatics Specialists

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.

Develop, implement, or evaluate health information technology applications, tools, processes, or structures to assist nurses with data management.

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.

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.