Health Informatics Careers
When it comes to your work, what drives you? If you’re a health care, business or information technology professional with a passion for computers, IT or software development, then a career in health informatics could be a perfect fit for your talents.
As one of the fastest growing fields in the health care industry, health informatics professionals act as a bridge between the worlds of medicine and technology. They work to seamlessly integrate these two unique disciplines, and possess expertise in medical data management, patient care, and information technology systems.
In the health care industry, there are two distinct types of technology personnel, health care IT and informatics professionals. Health care IT professionals handle the hardware, software, servers, and installation services normally associated with a typical IT department. Informatics professionals deal with the analysis and interpretation of clinical data and medical information. They work with other health care staff to plan, implement and optimize health information systems.
Health informatics professionals typically begin their careers several different ways. From inside the health care industry, candidates can begin as an administrator, clinician, nurse, physician, or pharmacist with an interest in informatics; or they enter from outside the health care industry as an IT professional with an interest in creating more efficient health information systems.
Many professionals find that an advanced degree in health informatics can help them move into management roles with hospitals, consulting firms, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies or other health-related organizations.
Below you will find career opportunities available in the field of health informatics:
- C-Suite or Office of the CIO Positions
- Chief Information Officer
- Chief Clinical Informatics Officer
- Chief Nursing Informatics Officer
- Chief Medical Informatics Officer
- Information Technology Leadership Positions
- Vice President, Information Technology
- Vice President, Electronic Health Record
- Vice President, Clinical Systems
- Deputy Chief Information Officer
- Consulting Physician Executive
- Senior Director of IT
- Director of Information Systems
- Director of Applications
- Director of Clinical Applications
- Director of Business and Financial Systems
- Informatics Positions
- Vice President, Medical Informatics
- Vice President, Clinical Informatics
- Director of Clinical Informatics
- Director of Medical Informatics
- Clinical Informatics Coordinator or Manager
- Informaticist Researcher
- IT Staff Positions
- Project Manager/Implementation Consultant
- Clinical Project Manager
- Consultant
- Implementation Manager
- Clinical Training Manager
- Data, Application or System Analyst
- HIM Positions
- Technology and Infrastructure leadership
- Chief Technology Officer
- Chief Security Officer
- Director of Technology Services
- Product Developer
- Systems Architect
- Systems Engineer
- Academic – Faculty for Health Informatics/Health Information Management Curricula
- Department Chair
- Professor
- Adjunct Professor
- Research Associate
Types of organizations looking for health informatics skills
- Hospitals
- Health Systems
- Ambulatory Care sites
- Long Term Care facilities
- Home Health Care
- Mental and Behavioral Healthcare Facilities
- Medical Groups and Physician organizations
- Government Agencies
- Insurance Companies-CIO/Data Analysts/Sales/
- Managed Care Plans
- Health Care Related Software Companies
- Health Care Consulting Firms
- Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Companies
- Health Care Associations
- Academia/Education
- Start-ups companies in health care IT
