Jobs / DevOps, SRE, and IT operations / 15-1211.01
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.
- US jobs
- 519,530 (SOC 15-1211 group, "Computer Systems Analysts")
- Median wage
- $105,850 a year
- Job family
- DevOps, SRE, and IT operations
Can agents do the work of health informatics specialists?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, DevOps, SRE, and IT operations:
- Task levelPartialMixed. On SREGym, the best agent fixes 72.2% of injected faults end to end. On ITBench-AA, no model names the root cause of more than half of Kubernetes incidents (best 47%). Infrastructure as code has only generation tests with 2024-era results (IaC-Eval, 36.7%). We found no public benchmark with recent results that tests agents making Terraform changes to live infrastructure.
- Project levelUnexploredNo benchmark in our collection tests operations work at project scale, such as a multi-day migration, a platform upgrade, or an on-call rotation.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in devops, sre, and it operations, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 36.7%GPT-4 with retrieval-augmented generation · 2024Emerging
- 47%Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) · 27 May 2026Emerging
- OSWorld-Verifiedby HKU, Salesforce AI Research, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Waterloo90.2%Intelligence-Indeed Agent · 25 Jul 2026Saturated
- 84.7%NexAU-AHE + GPT-5.5 · 23 Apr 2026Retired
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- 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.
- Develop strategies, policies or procedures for introducing, evaluating, or modifying information technology applied to nursing practice, administration, education, or research.
- Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in informatics.
Other job titles for this occupation (52)
Clinical Electronic Health Record Nurse (Clinical EHR Nurse) · Clinical Informaticist · Clinical Informatics Analyst · Clinical Informatics Nurse · Clinical Informatics Specialist · Health Informaticist · Nursing Informatics Officer · Nursing Informatics Specialist · RN Clinical Information Systems Coordinator (Registered Nurse Clinical Information Systems Coordinator) · RN Clinical Information Systems Educator (Registered Nurse Clinical Information Systems Educator) · Clinical Quality Auditor · Clinical Specialist · Clinical Systems Educator · Coding Auditor · Health Informatics Advisor · Health Informatics Analyst · Health Informatics Coordinator · Health Informatics Instructor · Health Informatics Solutions Coordinator · Health Informatics Specialist · Health Information Management Manager · Health IT Specialist (Health Information Technology Specialist) · Healthcare Analyst · Healthcare Analytics Consultant · Healthcare Data Analyst · Informaticist · Informatics Application Analyst · Informatics Nurse · Informatics Nurse Specialist · Informatics Pharmacist · Informatics Resource Nurse · Inpatient Coding Auditor · Nurse Informaticist · Nurse Informatics Educator · Nurse Informatics Specialist · Nurse Reviewer · Nursing Informatics Analyst · Nursing Informatics Clinical Analyst · Performance Quality Auditor · Physician Reviewer · Public Health Informatician · QC Nurse (Quality Control Nurse) · Records Manager · Telehealth Case Manager · Telehealth Coordinator · Telehealth Nurse · Telehealth Nurse Educator · Test Development Nurse Specialist · Utilization Review Coordinator · Utilization Review Manager · Utilization Review Nurse · Utilization Review Specialist