PACS & RIS Systems Administrator

Eisenhower Health; Rancho Mirage (CA); On-site; USD 56,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage, CA is seeking a skilled RIS/PACS IT professional to plan, upgrade and maintain Pictorial Archiving and Communication Systems, assigned applications, and workflows that support Radiology and Cardiology. You will collaborate with the RIS/PACS Manager to design architectures that improve clinical workflows and reduce errors.

Required: Bachelor’s Degree in IT or healthcare, or 4 years of related experience; preferred: Master’s Degree; certifications such as DICOM,

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in IT or healthcare related field or an additional four (4) years of applicable experience in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree
• Preferred: Master’s Degree in Information Technology or healthcare related field
• Licensure/Certification: One (1) relevant IT Certification (DICOM, Radiant, Cupid or related IT certification) or Healthcare Certification (AART, RN, RT or related healthcare license/certification)
• Experience: Five (5) years of experience in healthcare and technology or nine (9) years relevant combined experience in healthcare and technology in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree
• Preferred: Experience working with radiologists or in an imaging department, supporting imaging or cardiology applications

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates compliance with Code of Conduct and compliance policies, and takes action to resolve compliance questions or concerns and report suspected violations.
• Responsible for planning implementing, monitoring, and maintaining the Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), Radiology Information System (RIS) and Cardiology systems.
• Partners with radiologists, technologists and staff to recommend, create and optimize hanging protocols, exam filters, dictation profiles, reports and proactively prioritize issue resolution.
• Plans and engineers connectivity between imaging modalities and PACS. Manages the suite of modalities and tools to route DICOM images to systems like post processing, artificial intelligence.
• Installs software and trains physicians and staff on applications and workflows and manages the overall PACS confluence documentation to ensure updates are made promptly. Mentors PACS Admin I in documentation standards.
• Proactively identifies and resolves interface errors with Radiology and Cardiology systems. Uses Lean and root cause analysis quality processes to recommend new workflows and or processes to reduce the potential for errors.
• Provides leadership for troubleshooting issues and working closely with customers and the RIS/PACS team to resolve issues.
• Creates and maintains radiology, cardiology and imaging reports and ensure dashboards are updated.
• Mentors others in quality documentation in tickets, confluence and project plans while seeking input from experienced peers.
• Leads process improvement processes and projects applies improvement processes to daily work tasks when appropriate.
• Proactively monitors performance reports, work queues, error logs to ensure systems are performing optimally. Suggest alternatives for performance improvement.
• Ensures effective communication with physicians, other clinical personnel between assigned departments, vendors and IS staff members.
• Assist the departments in utilizing the software to support and maximize the operational benefits to achieve best practices.
• Leads RIS/PACS projects and tasks necessary to complete projects on time and on budget.
• Supports Tumor Board conferences and optimizes systems to support privacy and security.
• Assures that all necessary documentation (i.e. procedures, processes) are properly completed.
• Completes RIS/PACS/CPACS competencies.
• Participates in the RIS/PACS OnCall rotation.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job description

Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage, CA is seeking a skilled RIS/PACS IT professional to plan, upgrade and maintain Pictorial Archiving and Communication Systems, assigned applications, and workflows that support Radiology and Cardiology. You will collaborate with the RIS/PACS Manager to design architectures that improve clinical workflows and reduce errors.

Required: Bachelor’s Degree in IT or healthcare, or 4 years of related experience; preferred: Master’s Degree; certifications such as DICOM,