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Health Informatics Specialists
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.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Translate nursing practice information between nurses and systems engineers, analysts, or designers, using object-oriented models or other techniques.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Use informatics science to design or implement health information technology applications for resolution of clinical or health care administrative problems.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Develop or implement policies or practices to ensure the privacy, confidentiality, or security of patient information.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Analyze and interpret patient, nursing, or information systems data to improve nursing services.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Identify, collect, record, or analyze data relevant to the nursing care of patients.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Apply knowledge of computer science, information science, nursing, and informatics theory to nursing practice, education, administration, or research, in collaboration with other health informatics specialists.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Develop, implement, or evaluate health information technology applications, tools, processes, or structures to assist nurses with data management.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Design, 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.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Disseminate information about nursing informatics science and practice to the profession, other health care professions, nursing students, and the public.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Analyze computer and information technologies to determine applicability to nursing practice, education, administration, and research.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss28%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
49%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 91% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.
AI tools for your work
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