As you move through your career in the health informatics field you might want to know about advanced roles in this field, that can be added to your long-term career goals. In this blog post, I will be going over 3 advanced health informatics roles.
1. Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO)
The CMIO might be overseeing the implementation and integration of digital solutions within the healthcare organization. This is a vast role that might include hiring IT talent and overseeing the migration of advanced business intelligence platforms for improved reporting purposes. The CMIO might also play a role in developing the strategic short and long-term technological goals of the healthcare organization.
Average Salary: Around $130K USD
Education Requirements: Usually requires an advanced degree in health informatics or relevant discipline, with over 10 years of experience, requires prior leadership experience
2. Data Governance Manager
This role might consist of overseeing or developing organizational policy where the right users have access to the right information at the right time. For example, creating safeguards in place so that users have access to sensitive PHI on a need-to-know basis to fulfill their job role. This might also result in creating a data governance framework to ensure that metrics and data definitions are standardized and defined across the organization.
Average Salary: Around $90K USD
Education Requirements: Usually requires an advanced degree in health informatics or relevant discipline, 3-5 years of experience, demonstrated skills of the creation, storage, archiving and deletion of data
3. Data Architect
Could be tasked with migrating an organization onto a cloud platform. The data architect might be responsible for overseeing how data is managed, stored and accessed within the organization’s database system and most likely will be reporting to the Chief Medical Information Officer.
Average Salary: Around $100K USD
Education Requirements: Usually requires a degree in IT or relevant experience, 5-7 years of experience, experience understanding database architecture and data integrity to ensure performance and quality.
These are 3 advanced roles in the health informatics field that you may want to keep in mind as you plan your career goals within the field!
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