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UT Southwestern Medical Center · 18 hours ago

Senior PACS Analyst

Dallas, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

4+ years exp

UT Southwestern Medical Center is a world-renowned medical and research center located in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The Senior PACS Analyst is responsible for managing and optimizing the Picture Archive Communication System to ensure seamless medical imaging workflows, troubleshoot system issues, and collaborate with IT teams and clinical staff.

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No H1B

Responsibilities

Manages projects and serves as primary customer contact. Defines and maintains project plan and schedules. Monitors compliance with definitions of project scope, timelines, and deliverables. Provides regular project status reports to customer and internal management. Assists business analysts of lower grade to coordinate projects

Collects, interprets and documents specifications required to develop new and revise existing software applications. Develops and implements operational plans for new and existing business computer applications. Participates in development of project proposals for customers

Coordinates testing of new applications and changes to existing applications to ensure integrity and quality of data while providing and/or assisting in training of system users. Defines and develops test scenarios. Documents and tracks status of application errors and related issues in problem log. Assist programmers and business analysts of lower grade in analyzing and resolving problems

Monitor PACS activities and resources, diagnoses system hardware and software problems, perform monitor calibrations, validates computer workstations, resolves problems according to established policies and procedures as required by assigned team

Compiles complete, concise, and comprehensive policies and operation procedures to assist in communicating issues to applicable management staff

Develops new system administrative procedures required utilizing new functionality resulting from system changes

Assists in developing and implementing business strategies in departments to improve operational processing and productivity

Monitors development of specifications and establishes priorities for accomplishing design and testing of various projects

Reviews, develops, recommends, and implements activities, programs or functions as assigned. Maintains and tracks accounts assigned to projects or programs. Develops and maintains project plans. Provides project status reports

Assists with a process improvement/quality improvement project committee to develop solutions to identified issues

Chairperson, co-chair, or subject matter expert on two or more quality council (e.g. P&T or subcommittee, CQT, OQT, EQT, MS) or on a hospital based committee/task force or ambulatory governance committee and attend at least 85% of the meetings

Routinely recommends and documents clinical interventions that should be taken in the electronic medical record

Super user trainer for new programs or initiatives, and provides training to staff for implementation

Involvement and precepting pharmacy, nursing or medical students, or be an approved resident preceptor

Provide feedback and recommendations to the CMIO's and HSIR leadership as needed

Providing technical guidance and/or business knowledge and direction to project team members with occasional supervision. Monitors industry trends for applicability, evaluating software and related technologies for recommendations

Has a leading role in the medication safety perspective of technology initiatives and ongoing support of systems. Analyzes clinical data, recommending and developing system solutions that support patient care

Performs other duties as assigned

Qualification

PACS managementDICOM standardsDatabase managementMedical imaging technologiesHealth informaticsClinical systems experienceSoftware upgradesProject managementTechnical trainingCollaborationProblem-solvingCommunication

Required

Master's Degree in health informatics, healthcare management, computer science, data science or related health technology field or PACS Administrator (Must have knowledge and training of Imaging Informatics, Solutions Engineer, Clinical Analyst, Application Analyst or System Engineer) and High School Diploma or equivalent with PACS Administrator Pharmacy degree from ACPE accredited school, current licensure by State Board of Pharmacy or Physician assistant graduate from an ARC-PA accredited school, current licensure by the State of Texas or Master's Degree Nurse Practitioner with Master's degree in Nursing (MSN). Must have current licensure as a Registered Nurse through the National Council Licensure Examination ‿ Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). Must be credentialed through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners or American Nurses Credentialing Center

4 years of experience in clinical systems and/or project management

Pharmacy; Current licensure by State Board of Pharmacy Upon Hire

Physician assistant; current licensure by the State of Texas Upon Hire

REGISTERED NURSE - Must have current licensure as a Registered Nurse through the National Council Licensure Examination - Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). Upon Hire

Nurse Practitioner; Must be credentialed through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners or American Nurses Credentialing Center. Upon Hire

Preferred

Experience in clinical setting

PACS certification (Certified PACS Associate- CPAS, Certified DICOM Integration Professional- CDIP, Certified PACS Systems Analyst- CPSA) Upon Hire

Certification in a core health informatics application (e.g., Epic Cogito or Healthy Planet Analytics, Cerner HealtheAnalytics, Microsoft Azure, AWS, or equivalent) Upon Hire

Certification in project management and/or business analysis (e.g., Certified Scrum Master, Disciplined Agile Scrum Master, PMI-Agile Certified Professional, PMI-Professional in Business Analysis, Certified Business Analysis Professional) Upon Hire