Consultant, Imaging Systems

Lifepoint Health•Brentwood, TN

6h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Consultant, Imaging Systems is a senior individual contributor responsible for the strategy, design, implementation, optimization, integration, and ongoing support of enterprise clinical imaging technologies. The role works with clinical, operational, information technology, cybersecurity, vendor, and facility stakeholders to translate business and patient-care needs into reliable, secure, and scalable imaging solutions. It provides technical leadership across picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), vendor-neutral archives (VNA), radiology and cardiology applications, image exchange, diagnostic viewing, and related interfaces. The position supports standardization, availability, data integrity, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement across Lifepoint Health facilities. It provides consultative guidance and knowledge transfer but has no direct supervisory responsibility. The job is hybrid, based in Brentwood, Tennessee, with remote work during normal business hours and travel of up to 50%. Schedules may vary based on business needs, including on-call and scheduled after-hours work. The role requires a bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience, and seven or more years of progressively responsible healthcare IT experience, including substantial experience with enterprise clinical imaging technologies. A master's degree, relevant professional certification, and experience in complex, multi-hospital imaging implementations or migrations are preferred.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, biomedical engineering, healthcare administration, a clinical discipline, or a related field; an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be considered.
Seven or more years of progressively responsible experience supporting, implementing, integrating, or optimizing healthcare information technology systems, including substantial experience with enterprise clinical imaging technologies.
Advanced knowledge of clinical imaging workflows and technologies, including PACS, VNA, diagnostic viewing, image exchange, modality connectivity, DICOM, HL7, and related interoperability concepts.
Working knowledge of healthcare technology architecture, networking, databases, cloud and hosted solutions, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, change management, and service management practices.
Ability to analyze complex technical and clinical problems, synthesize data, assess risk, develop practical recommendations, and drive issues to resolution with limited direction.
Strong project leadership, consultation, facilitation, documentation, prioritization, and organizational skills, including the ability to manage concurrent initiatives and operational demands.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to clinical, operational, and executive audiences and influence decisions without direct authority.
Ability to build effective cross-disciplinary relationships, maintain confidentiality, exercise sound judgment, and work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic healthcare environment.
Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and work outside standard business hours when needed for implementations, upgrades, maintenance, or critical issue response.
Ability to travel up to 50%.
Maintain required licensure, certification, and professional credentials, if applicable, in good standing.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree.
Relevant professional certification, such as CIIP, PMP, ITIL, or an applicable vendor certification.
Experience in a multi-hospital or complex healthcare environment.
Experience leading large-scale imaging implementations or migrations and coordinating cross-functional teams and vendors.

Responsibilities

Provide subject-matter expertise and technical leadership for enterprise imaging platforms, workflows, integrations, and infrastructure across radiology, cardiology, and other image-producing clinical departments.
Lead or support requirements definition, solution design, configuration, testing, implementation, upgrades, migrations, and stabilization for PACS, VNA, diagnostic viewers, image exchange, and related clinical imaging applications.
Collaborate with clinical and operational leaders to assess workflows and recommend standardized solutions that improve clinician experience, efficiency, quality, patient safety, and continuity of care.
Design, validate, and support interoperability among imaging systems, electronic health records, modalities, archives, and ancillary applications using DICOM, HL7, FHIR, and related web services.
Monitor system performance, capacity, data quality, interface integrity, and availability; investigate advanced incidents, perform root-cause analysis and problem management, and implement corrective actions.
Develop and maintain technical standards, architecture documentation, configuration records, support procedures, test plans, change documentation, and system lifecycle roadmaps.
Partner with cybersecurity, infrastructure, networking, identity and access management, privacy, and compliance teams to meet security, resilience, access, retention, and regulatory requirements.
Coordinate vendor performance, technical escalations, and maintenance; evaluate solutions and contribute technical analysis to contracts, statements of work, budgets, and capital planning as requested.
Provide consultative guidance, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to analysts, support teams, facility resources, and project participants.
Participate in project governance, change control, disaster recovery and business continuity planning, on-call support, and scheduled after-hours activities as required.
Perform other duties and special projects in support of Clinical Technology and Acute Systems priorities.
Maintain compliance with applicable regulations, policies, procedures, standards, and HIPAA confidentiality requirements.
Support Lifepoint Health's mission, vision, values, and goals; interact professionally with employees, leaders, physicians, patients, visitors, and community partners.
Maintain workplace safety accountability and complete required education, training, and mandatory requirements; maintain applicable credentials in good standing.