Also called: Clinical AI Program Manager, Healthcare AI Implementation Specialist, AI Clinical Informatics Specialist
Helps hospitals choose, test and safely roll out AI tools, like note-writing assistants and early-warning alerts, working between doctors, nurses and tech teams.
You check how often an AI tool that warns about sepsis fired too early last month, and meet with ICU nurses about false alarms. Then you train a clinic's doctors on an AI scribe that drafts their notes and collect their feedback.
Estimate; similar to nurse informaticists and clinical systems analysts.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Usually a nurse, pharmacist or other clinician with a bachelor's or higher plus informatics experience; some come from data science.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Nursing (BSN), Health Informatics, Health Information Management, Data Science.
Growing about average. Hospitals are adding AI oversight and rollout teams quickly, but the role is new and small.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. AI tools will help monitor other AI tools, but deciding what's safe for patients and earning clinicians' trust stay human.
Classes: Biology, AP Statistics, Computer science, Health science CTE class.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-1211.
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