Health Informatics Specialists Career, Salary and Skills
Health Informatics Specialists have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $105,850 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 519,530. Wage data is published for 415 locations.
Occupation description
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.
O*NET code
15-1211.01
Job zone
5
Typical education
Master's Degree
Experience
Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$105,850
Hourly median
$50.89
Employment
519,530
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 4.38 | 4.88 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 4.12 | 4.12 |
| Writing | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Speaking | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Active Listening | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Critical Thinking | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 3.88 | 4.00 |
| Active Learning | 3.75 | 4.75 |
| Learning Strategies | 3.75 | 4.00 |
| Systems Analysis | 3.75 | 4.00 |
Typical tasks
- 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.
- 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.
- Analyze and interpret patient, nursing, or information systems data to improve nursing services.
Technology
- Allscripts Professional EHR
- Allscripts Sunrise
- Amkai AmkaiCharts
- Apache Hadoop
- Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMR
- Cerner Millennium
- Cerner PowerChart
- ChartWare EMR
- Computer aided software engineering CASE tools
- Computerized physician order entry CPOE software
- e-MDs software
- eClinicalWorks EHR software
- Electronic medical administration record eMAR software
- Epic Systems
Health Informatics Specialists salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Health Informatics Specialists Salary in CAMedian $127,720 · Employment 59,060
- Health Informatics Specialists Salary in TXMedian $107,390 · Employment 47,990
- Health Informatics Specialists Salary in FLMedian $101,900 · Employment 35,270
- Health Informatics Specialists Salary in New York, NYMedian $128,340 · Employment 26,540
- Health Informatics Specialists Salary in WAMedian $129,410 · Employment 24,120
- Health Informatics Specialists Salary in NYMedian $109,610 · Employment 24,100
- Health Informatics Specialists Salary in VAMedian $120,840 · Employment 23,190
- Health Informatics Specialists Salary in MAMedian $128,240 · Employment 22,160
- Health Informatics Specialists Salary in NCMedian $106,850 · Employment 20,910
- Health Informatics Specialists Salary in ILMedian $101,570 · Employment 20,610
- Health Informatics Specialists Salary in Dallas, TXMedian $122,520 · Employment 20,000
- Health Informatics Specialists Salary in PAMedian $98,550 · Employment 19,450
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.