What types of careers are there in health informatics?
Staff working in health informatics in the NHS are employed in four main groups. These are: • clinical informatics • information & communication technology (ICT) • information management • knowledge management Staff in each group share a core of knowledge and skills and will in addition, have a recognised specialist area of practice. For further information about each of the above career areas and examples of roles within each, please see the entries in the menu on the left of this page. Staff come into health informatics from a variety of backgrounds and can develop their careers through the Health Informatics Career Framework.
