All occupations › Computer & mathematicalCan AI Replace Health Informatics Specialists in 2026? Moderate exposure. AI could handle about 78% of today's health informatics specialists tasks by 2036, and there is a 49% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI is likely to take over many tasks outright.
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Timeline Year 2030 Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs
16% 2030 · 49% 2036
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0% 50% 100% 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 16% 2027: 19% 2028: 23% 2029: 29% 2030: 38% 2031: 47% 2032: 57% 2033: 65% 2034: 71% 2035: 75% 2036: 78% 38% Share of today's tasks AI can perform 40 80 120 2026 2028 2030 2032 2034 2036 2026: 100 2027: 99 2028: 98 2029: 96 2030: 93 2031: 90 2032: 87 2033: 84 2034: 82 2035: 81 2036: 80 93 Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line) Your survival map Not every part of your job is at the same risk. Tap a number to see what to do about each task.
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1 Plan, install, repair, or troubleshoot telehealth technology applications or systems in homes. 2 Analyze and interpret patient, nursing, or information systems data to improve nursing services. 3 Develop, implement, or evaluate health information technology applications, tools, processes, or structures to assist nurses with data management. 4 Use informatics science to design or implement health information technology applications for resolution of clinical or health care administrative problems. 5 Identify, collect, record, or analyze data relevant to the nursing care of patients. 6 Translate nursing practice information between nurses and systems engineers, analysts, or designers, using object-oriented models or other techniques. 7 Apply knowledge of computer science, information science, nursing, and informatics theory to nursing practice, education, administration, or research, in collaboration… 8 Design, develop, select, test, implement, and evaluate new or modified informatics solutions, data structures, and decision-support mechanisms to support patients,… Lower-risk jobs that use similar skills Your plan Ticks are saved in this browser only.
Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Identify, collect, record, or analyze data relevant to the nursing care of patients". Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Analyze and interpret patient, nursing, or information systems data to improve nursing services". Get visibly better at your human core: "Plan, install, repair, or troubleshoot telehealth technology applications or systems in homes". Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output. Read about a lower-risk move: Clinical Nurse Specialists. Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks Based on 17 O*NET tasks for "Health Informatics Specialists" (SOC 15-1211.01). LLM alone: 0% of tasks; with AI tools: 97%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10
