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Careers
When it comes to your work, what drives you? If you’re a healthcare, 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 healthcare 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 healthcare industry, there are two distinct types of technology personnel, healthcare IT and informatics professionals. Health 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 healthcare staff to plan, implement and optimize health information systems.
Health informatics professionals typically begin their careers several different ways. From inside the healthcare industry, candidates can begin as an administrator, clinician, nurse, physician, or pharmacist with an interest in informatics; or they enter from outside the healthcare 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.
Occupational Codes
The graduate-level curriculum in health informatics at the University of Illinois at Chicago provides its students a comprehensive, real-world approach to systems integration within healthcare.
Health Informatics Careers
When it comes to your work, what drives you? If you’re a healthcare, business or information technology professional then a career in health informatics could be a perfect fit.
Clinical Informatics Data Analyst
The Clinical Data Analyst will work independently to document external data acquisition policies and procedures as well as interface with other business units to define and document data needs.
Health Information Management Faculty
Develops and administers curriculum for students to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for competency in accordance with the stipulations of professional and accreditation agencies.
Health Care Risk Manager
Develops and implements the organization’s risk management program in a manner that fulfills the mission and strategic goals of the organization.
Healthcare Revenue Cycle Manager
Critical to the revenue cycle process, the Revenue Cycle Manager contributes to the day to day operations on all issues related to the revenue cycle functions.
Health Information Management Manager
Responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining a data quality management (compliance) plan for coding and reimbursement, health records and documentation.
Health Data Information Security Manager
Serves as the process owner for all ongoing activities related to the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of patient, provider, employee, and business information.
Utilization Management Director
Responsible for administering and managing the facility’s utilization management program.
Health Information Management Director
Responsible for building and managing a large team to support on-site HIM and Coding operations.
Compliance Manager/HIPAA Officer
Responsible for oversight and guidance of the development, implementation, maintenance and adherence to the organization’s policies and procedures.
Chief Privacy Officer
Oversees all ongoing activities related to the development, implementation, maintenance of, and adherence to the organization’s policies and procedures covering the privacy of patient health information.
Regional Vice President, Health Information Management
High visibility position responsible for the effective management of the HIM functions at all regional health systems.
Director of Healthcare Technology Services
Responsible for developing the vision and architecture to support the integration of the technology service lines.
Chief Healthcare Technology Officer
Responsible for planning the strategy for developing information systems, and acquiring the hardware to meet application needs.
Health Informatics Implementation Manager
Responsible for managing systems implementations, managing project plans, financials and resource allocations.
Clinical Informatics Training Manager
Provides clinical expertise through training, go-live support, and consultation to end user clinicians (nurses, physicians, ancillary staff).
Health Informatics Consultant
Responsible for partnering with clients in implementing IT supported evidence-based medicine, measuring and continuously improving care quality and realizing business benefits from solutions.
Clinical Informatics Project Manager
Responsible for analyzing client needs, creating clinical workflows, developing strategies tailored to each organization, and providing guidance throughout the scope of implementation projects.
Healthcare IT Project Manager
Responsible for managing large-scale IT projects and initiatives and obtaining maximum value from IT project management services.
Vice President of Medical Informatics
Provides leadership, consultation, and coordination of clinical informatics processes and integration of those processes with system-wide clinical information technology strategies within the health system.
Senior Director of IT
Responsible for all aspects of the development and implementation of all IT related projects including administration, clinical and business applications.
Vice President, Electronic Health Record
Responsible for the overall scope, cost, schedule, quality, and success of the electronic health record implementation across Medical Center.
Vice President, Information Technology
Responsible for assessing the technology infrastructure needed to support the enterprise-wide electronic medical record strategy and defining the overall IT strategy.
Chief Medical Informatics Officer
Responsible for supporting the development of clinical information systems to improve the delivery of patient care.
Chief Clinical Informatics Officer
Provides leadership for all information systems that assist nurses and physicians and other clinicians in the delivery of patient care, medical education and research.
Chief Information Officer
Envisions, articulates, plans, develops, implements, maintains, monitors, evaluates and changes organization-wide strategic information systems with emphasis on patient care.
Pharmacy Systems Analyst
Responsible for overseeing the drug master file within the pharmacy, entering data, comparing information and data, and reporting and discrepancies or possible errors to the appropriate agency.
Nursing Informatics Specialist
Responsible for assisting informatics technicians and others to provide clinical information and data analysis for effective patient care.
Nursing Informatics Analyst
Works within the management team to ensure high quality of performance, compliance and technical support to both the management and the nursing staff.
Medical Informatics Program Manager
Oversees the entry of data, helps determine the various databases and programs that will be used as well as works in evaluating the effectiveness of the current information technology systems.
Knowledge Management Analyst
Responsible for the proper collection, storage and presentation or dissemination of research or intellectual capital that is created with a research facility, hospital or other type of care facility.
IT Training Director
Responsible for the overall planning, development and implementation of informational technology training programs for new and existing staff in the hospital or healthcare facility.
Information Security Officer
Responsible to protect and monitor any and all company information from being removed, accessed or manipulated from those outside of the company.
Medical Informatics Researcher
Responsible for understanding and applying research designs and application in developing better and more efficient ways of entering, retrieving and using medical informatics.
Information Systems Clinical Project Manager
The team leader for clinical projects that deal with information systems development, design and evaluations.
Director of Pharmaceutical Informatics
Responsible for being a champion among clinicians for the adoption of information technologies, streamlining report processes, coordinating IT projects to address physician concerns.
Director of Nursing Informatics
Responsible for coordinating, assessing and evaluating the entry, retrieval, analysis and accuracy of information used in and for patient care.
Director of Medical Informatics
Responsible to act as a liaison between physicians and information services during IT projects to ensure that physician concerns are addressed and that such projects remain on track.
Clinical Information Systems Coordinator
Participates in training and orientation and works with specialized groups within the hospital to train them on data issues, security and confidentiality issues with regards to data and data systems.
Clinical Systems Analyst
Responsible for researching and learning about new systems and making recommendations to planning and budget committees as to the best information system to use and implement in the hospital.
Clinical Database Manager
Responsible for working with the various research projects within the hospital, long-term care facility or research facility to manage, maintain and develop appropriate databases and data retrieval systems.
