Sr. PACS Administrator

University of Miami • Miami, FL

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About The Position

The University of Miami UHealth Department of MSOM – Radiology has an exciting opportunity for a full time Senior PACS Administrator in Miami. The incumbent oversees the day-to-day operations of the PACS/RIS equipment, including image workflow, archiving, auto routing, prefetching, and other related activities. The incumbent on this position coordinates projects with department and clinical staff to ensure effective integration of clinical systems with other institutional applications. Moreover, this employee ensures proper operations of DICOM image data transfers into the PACS as well as network transmission, RIS validation, and exceptions handling.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience required.
• Experience with PACS / DICOM systems required.
• Solid understanding of clinical workflow within one or more clinical service lines and how it relates to Medical Imaging and PACS.
• Excellent attention to detail, project management skills, and applications training skills.
• Experience with Philips Intellispace, Performance Bridge, Nuance Powerscribe One, mPower, AIDOC, Teamplay, DynaCAD, SyngoVia, Terarecon, PACSGear preferred.
• CIIP or PARCA certification preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Any relevant combination of education, certification, skills and/or experience may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Manages and coordinates system security to ensure that unauthorized personnel cannot access vital information.
• Assigns and updates user and system passwords and access levels.
• Performs regular inspections to ensure that all equipment is well maintained and operating safely.
• Ensures that studies are flowing from modalities to the archive and reading stations through the various interfaces and processing queues.
• Repairs broken and corrupted studies and splits and merges studies.
• Updates the system configuration as new modalities, workstations, and RIS codes are added over time.
• Investigates, identifies, and prepares proposals to resolve operational problems within clinical imaging areas.
• Ensures validation of details and oversees network and operational management of the picture archiving and communication system (PACS).
• Assists with implementation of upgrades to maintain the system at optimal performance.
• Provides input to appropriate business unit managers to assist in identifying present and future needs for PACS equipment.
• Assists end users with PACS-related issues.
• Provides support and application maintenance and performs PACS-related training.
• Maintains secure records of all PACS equipment.
• Oversees RIS/PACS integration, dictionary database structure set up and maintenance, application and hardware redundancy procedures, downtime protocols, and archival strategies for RIS/PACS clinical data.
• Oversees activities of vendors in all phases of installation and implementation and provides training for new systems, applications, and upgrades.
• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries.
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees