Health Informatics Specialists
Machines can already do 39% of this job's tasks. By 2035 that rises to 66%. The job changes before it disappears.
Share of the work machines can do
Worldwide baseline, 2026 to 2050
Health Informatics Specialists in 2026: the short answer
- Today: machines can do 39% of this job's tasks, and AI use is already seen in 28% of them.
- Forecast: machines can do half of its tasks by 2030, and 66% by 2035, according to the 311 Strategic Intelligence Unit.
- Size: 519,530 people do this job in the United States, on a median pay of $105,850 a year.
- Contact with people: it scores 70% for contact with people.
- Also called: Clinical Electronic Health Record Nurse (Clinical EHR Nurse), Clinical Informaticist, Clinical Informatics Analyst, Clinical Informatics Nurse.
Updated by the 311 Strategic Intelligence Unit. These are worldwide baseline figures; the Workforce Starburst shows them for your country. Go deeper: How ready am I? or an executive briefing.
How the work changes, task by task
The tasks that take up most of the day, with the share of each that machines can do in 2026 (dark) and 2035 (pink). Worldwide baseline.
| Task | Share of the day | Machines can do | 2026 to 2035 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 13% | 28% to 62% | |
| Translate nursing practice information between nurses and systems engineers, analysts, or designers, using object-oriented models or other techniques | 10% | 30% to 54% | |
| Develop or deliver training programs for health information technology, creating operating manuals as needed | 10% | 25% to 50% | |
| Use informatics science to design or implement health information technology applications for resolution of clinical or health care administrative problems | 9% | 35% to 65% | |
| Provide consultation to nurses regarding hardware or software configuration | 9% | 35% to 58% | |
| Analyze and interpret patient, nursing, or information systems data to improve nursing services | 8% | 60% to 90% | |
| Develop, implement, or evaluate health information technology applications, tools, processes, or structures to assist nurses with data management | 8% | 30% to 54% | |
| Identify, collect, record, or analyze data relevant to the nursing care of patients | 5% | 65% to 92% |
The skills this job runs on
The skills health informatics specialists use most, most used first.
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When will machines do half of the tasks of Health Informatics Specialists?
Machines can do half of its tasks by 2030. That is the worldwide baseline from the 311 Workforce Starburst, before adjusting for country.
Will AI take the job of health informatics specialists?
Machines can do 39% of the tasks of health informatics specialists today and 66% by 2035. The job changes before it disappears: the routine tasks move first.
Sources and citing
Tasks and their share of the day: O*NET 31.0, occupation 15-1211.01 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0). Pay and jobs: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. AI use today: Anthropic Economic Index (CC BY). Scoring and forecast: the 311 Strategic Intelligence Unit; after 2035 the figures extend each trend, with lower confidence. Foresight, not advice.
Cite as: 311 Institute (2026). Health Informatics Specialists: the outlook to 2050. 311 Workforce Starburst. https://www.311institute.com/jobs/health-informatics-specialists/