PACS Administrator

Role: PACS Admin

Location: Remote Work

Type of Employment: Contract

Responsibilities:

• Developing and planning strategies and providing technical support.
• Maintaining managing and troubleshooting of the PACS and ancillary applications i.e. Dynacad OrthoView Vitrea TeraRecon etc.
• Managing and implementing the storage of all received digital images from a variety of sources to build and maintain routing solutions for diagnostic images.
• Serving as a point of contact for the further development and improvement of a system in a medical facility.
• Jointly responsible for the administration of user profiles.
• Managing supplier relationships and maintaining technology.
• Collaborate with the IT infrastructure team to communicate storage and compute needs for the PACS applications.
• Install configure and administer the modalities connections in the existing network.
• Jointly responsible for the administration of user profiles.
• Managing the updating and archiving of image data.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 6 years experience required in the following areas:

Clinical:

• Knowledgeable experience of clinical workflow processes within medical imaging departments.
• Optimize clinical throughput and operational efficiency with PACS functionality and features.
• Master the basics of medical terminology.
• Effectively communicate with all stakeholders (physicians imaging technologists business and executive leaders team members etc.).

Technical:

• Knowledge of the HL7 / DICOM standards in theory and practice.
• Basic knowledge of current server operating systems virtual environments and networks as well as the safe handling of client hardware / software.
• Working knowledge of VPN (virtual private network) and NAT (network address translation) technologies.
• Basic knowledge of database structures and can create database queries (e.g. SQL).
• Understanding PACS integration processes with Hospital Information Systems (HIS) and Radiological Information Systems (RIS).
• Ability to implement and support 3rd party applications associated with PACS: CAD TeraRecon PowerScribe ImageShare Universal Viewer etc.
• Configure and support modalities and PACS workstations.
• Must be able to demonstrate a minimum of 6 years experience implementing and supporting IBM / Merative Merge.
• Experience working with ServiceNow ITSM is a plus.