Health Informatics

Informatics Position Requirements, Salary Ranges, and Settings

Informatics is a burgeoning field that already has a wide variety of positions available. This Discussion will familiarize you with those positions, their responsibilities, and salaries.

To prepare for this Discussion, explore the Internet for positions in informatics. Research the position titles, responsibilities, and salary ranges for positions in the field. Search general career sites like Career.com, and informatics recruiters, like StaffPointe.com or biohealthmatics.com, for job descriptions. Also search for salary information at Salary.com Free Salary Wizard.

Examples of job titles:

• Chief Medical Information Officer
  
• Medical Coder
  
• RN – Clinical Informatics
  
• Electronic Medical Records Project Manager
  
• Informatics Analytic Support Specialist

Choose one informatics job description, preferably one that interests you.

post a brief summary of the job position you found, including:

• Job title
• 3-4 of the duties assigned to the position
• Required and preferred qualifications
• Name of job board or website you used to find the position. Include a link to the URL
• Geographic location of the job
• Salary (if included)
• Does this job interest you? Why/why not?
• Why are health informatician positions, such as the one you found, critical to a health care organization, to the community, and to individuals?  Use the readings for this week to help you support your answer
• APA style format 250-350 words