AI exposure by occupation, O*NET 15-1211.01

Will AI replace Health Informatics Specialists?

Health Informatics Specialists: AI can already handle 8 of 17 tasks; the work mostly needs a frontier-tier model.

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Every task, scored

The 17 tasks O*NET 30.3 lists for Health Informatics Specialists, from most to least exposed. 8 reach 60 or more, the level at which AI already handles a task.

Task AI exposure Evidence Model tier Importance
Identify, collect, record, or analyze data relevant to the nursing care of patients. 80 Estimated Frontier 4.2
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. 75 Estimated Frontier 4.2
Disseminate information about nursing informatics science and practice to the profession, other health care professions, nursing students, and the public. 75 Estimated Standard 4.0
Analyze computer and information technologies to determine applicability to nursing practice, education, administration, and research. 75 Estimated Standard 3.9
Analyze and interpret patient, nursing, or information systems data to improve nursing services. 65 Estimated Frontier 4.3
Develop, implement, or evaluate health information technology applications, tools, processes, or structures to assist nurses with data management. 65 Estimated Standard 4.2
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. 65 Estimated Standard 4.1
Provide consultation to nurses regarding hardware or software configuration. 60 Estimated Frontier 3.4
Translate nursing practice information between nurses and systems engineers, analysts, or designers, using object-oriented models or other techniques. 50 Estimated Standard 4.8
Use informatics science to design or implement health information technology applications for resolution of clinical or health care administrative problems. 50 Estimated Frontier 4.7
Develop or implement policies or practices to ensure the privacy, confidentiality, or security of patient information. 50 Estimated Frontier 4.4
Develop strategies, policies or procedures for introducing, evaluating, or modifying information technology applied to nursing practice, administration, education, or research. 50 Estimated Frontier 3.8
Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in informatics. 50 Estimated Standard 3.7
Design, conduct, or provide support to nursing informatics research. 50 Estimated Efficient 3.7
Develop or deliver training programs for health information technology, creating operating manuals as needed. 50 Estimated Standard 3.7
Inform local, state, national, and international health policies related to information management and communication, confidentiality and security, patient safety, infrastructure development, and economics. 50 Estimated Frontier 3.7
Plan, install, repair, or troubleshoot telehealth technology applications or systems in homes. 50 Estimated Standard 2.8

Observed: scored from AI use recorded in the Anthropic Economic Index (June 2026 release), 0 of 17 tasks. Estimated: scored from the task's O*NET 30.3 work activity, 17 of 17. Importance is O*NET's 1 to 5 rating of how central the task is. Model tier is the lowest tier that can do the task under the published rubric; "No tier" marks hands-on work.

The model tier this role needs

A frontier-tier model or lower covers 100% of the role's importance-weighted task work. 100% of the work is something AI can address at some tier.

Efficient, standard and frontier tiers come from the JobRoute model tier reference. The recommended tier is the lowest one that covers 80% of the work AI can address. How the method works.

Wages, employment and outlook

US employment
519,530
Median annual wage
$105,850
Middle half of earners
$82,860 to $134,110
Projected change, 2024 to 2034
+8.7%

Employment and wages: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, national. Projection: BLS Employment Projections 2024 to 2034. BLS publishes these figures by SOC code, so O*NET occupations that share a SOC code show the same figures.

Adjacent roles

The occupations that reuse the most of this role's skills, with the usual time to move. These are the first places to look when you plan to redeploy or retrain people in this role.

Skill overlap and transition time from the JobRoute role adjacency graph on O*NET 30.3 skills.

Questions about Health Informatics Specialists and AI

Will AI replace Health Informatics Specialists?

AI already handles 8 of the 17 tasks O*NET lists for this occupation, at a task exposure of 60 or more, and the role's importance-weighted exposure is 60 out of 100. JobRoute scores tasks, not whole jobs, so the score shows how much of the work changes rather than whether the job disappears. BLS projects employment to change by +8.7% from 2024 to 2034.

What is the AI exposure of Health Informatics Specialists?

60 out of 100 on JobRoute's task exposure measure, the importance-weighted average of the role's O*NET task scores. Higher means more of the work is AI-doable today. 0 of the 17 task scores are observed in the Anthropic Economic Index (June 2026 release), and the other 17 are estimated from each task's O*NET work activity.

Which Health Informatics Specialists tasks can AI already do?

The tasks with the highest exposure are: 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; Disseminate information about nursing informatics science and practice to the profession, other health care professions, nursing students, and the public. They are three of the 8 tasks that reach 60 or more.

What AI model tier does this role need?

A frontier-tier model or lower covers 100% of the role's importance-weighted task work. JobRoute assigns each task the lowest tier that can do it under a published rubric and recommends the lowest tier that covers 80% of the work AI can address.

How many people work as Health Informatics Specialists, and what do they earn?

519,530 people in the United States, with a median annual wage of $105,850 (BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025). BLS Employment Projections expect a change of +8.7% from 2024 to 2034.

How to cite

Data version 2026-11-02, JobRoute method v1.0.0. Download all occupations or this occupation as JSON. Methodology.

JobRoute (2026). AI exposure: Health Informatics Specialists. Data version 2026-11-02, method v1.0.0. Built on O*NET 30.3, BLS OEWS May 2025 and the Anthropic Economic Index (June 2026). CC BY 4.0. https://www.jobroute.ai/jobs/health-informatics-specialists

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