Develop, implement, or evaluate health information technology applications, tools, processes, or structures to assist nurses with data management.

“Develop, implement, or evaluate health information technology applications, tools, processes, or structures to assist nurses with data management.” is a core task performed by Health Informatics Specialists. Among the occupation's 17 rated tasks, workers place it 11th by importance (#7 most important). About 100% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Evaluate the characteristics, usefulness, or performance of products or technologies. in Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People
• Design computer or information systems or applications. in Thinking Creatively

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T2.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.011% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 96% of that use is work-related
• 83% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Translate nursing practice information between nurses and systems engineers, analysts, or designers, using object-oriented models or other techniques. · importance 4.8
• Use informatics science to design or implement health information technology applications for resolution of clinical or health care administrative problems. · importance 4.7
• Develop or implement policies or practices to ensure the privacy, confidentiality, or security of patient information. · importance 4.4
• Analyze and interpret patient, nursing, or information systems data to improve nursing services. · importance 4.3
• Identify, collect, record, or analyze data relevant to the nursing care of patients. · importance 4.2
• Apply knowledge of computer science, information science, nursing, and informatics theory to nursing practice, education, administration, or research, in collaboration with other health informatics specialists. · importance 4.2
• Design, develop, select, test, implement, and evaluate new or modified informatics solutions, data structures, and decision-support mechanisms to support patients, health care professionals, and their information management and human-computer and human-technology interactions within health care contexts. · importance 4.1
• Disseminate information about nursing informatics science and practice to the profession, other health care professions, nursing students, and the public. · importance 4.0
• Analyze computer and information technologies to determine applicability to nursing practice, education, administration, and research. · importance 3.9
• Develop strategies, policies or procedures for introducing, evaluating, or modifying information technology applied to nursing practice, administration, education, or research. · importance 3.8
• Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in informatics. · importance 3.7
• Design, conduct, or provide support to nursing informatics research. · importance 3.7
• Develop or deliver training programs for health information technology, creating operating manuals as needed. · importance 3.7
• Inform local, state, national, and international health policies related to information management and communication, confidentiality and security, patient safety, infrastructure development, and economics. · importance 3.7

See all tasks on the Health Informatics Specialists page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Develop, implement, or evaluate health information technology applications, tools, processes, or structures to assist nurses with data management.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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