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clinical informatics manager

Clinical informatics managers oversee the daily operations of information systems used in a medical institutions. They also carry out research, using their understanding of clinical practices to find ways to improve healthcare services.

clinical informatics manager clinical informatics managers oversee the daily operations of information systems used in a medical institutions. They also carry out research, using their understanding of clinical practices to find ways to improve healthcare services. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.50 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include clinical reports, health care occupation-specific ethics, database, drug interaction management, multi-professional cooperation in health care.

AI exposure
5.0/10
automation risk

Pay in the UK

UK: median £61,573 a year for Health services and public health managers and directors (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)

Middle half of full-time jobs: £48,613 to £80,002 a year

UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 1171). ONS rates this estimate precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)

Pay in India (occupation group)

Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Managers” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only clinical informatics manager, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.

Urban India
₹55,360 a month
Rural India
₹31,701 a month
All India
₹50,408 a month

Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 1. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report

Top skills

clinical reports health care occupation-specific ethics database drug interaction management multi-professional cooperation in health care computer science multidisciplinary research data storage clinical science medical informatics

Frequently asked questions

What does clinical informatics manager do?

Clinical informatics managers oversee the daily operations of information systems used in a medical institutions. They also carry out research, using their understanding of clinical practices to find ways to improve healthcare services.

What skills does clinical informatics manager need?

The most in-demand skills for this role include clinical reports, health care occupation-specific ethics, database, drug interaction management, multi-professional cooperation in health care, computer science. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Will AI replace clinical informatics manager?

Our AI-durability model gives clinical informatics manager a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.

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