Box 2.

Health informatics domains of practice

Domain 1: Foundational Knowledge

Fundamental knowledge and skills that provide health informaticians with a common vocabulary, basic knowledge across all health informatics domains, and understanding of the environment in which they function.

Domain 2: Enhancing Health Decision-making, Processes, and Outcomes

Support and enhance decision-making by clinicians, patients, and public health professionals; analyze existing health processes and identify ways that health data and health information systems (HIS) can enable improved outcomes; evaluate the impact of HIS on practice; pursue discovery and innovation in HIS and informatics practice.

Domain 3: Health Information Systems

Plan, develop or acquire, implement, maintain, and evaluate health information systems that are integrated with existing information technology systems across the continuum of care including clinical, consumer, and public health domains, while addressing security, privacy, and safety considerations.

Domain 4: Data Governance, Management, and Analytics

Establish and maintain data governance structures, policies, and processes. Acquire and manage health-related data to ensure their quality and meaning across settings and to utilize them for analysis that supports individual and population health and drives innovation.

Domain 5: Leadership, Professionalism, Strategy, and Transformation

Build support and create alignment for informatics best practices; lead health informatics initiatives and innovation through collaboration and stakeholder engagement across organizations and systems.

Note: See Supplementary Appendix 1 for complete delineation of practice.