PACS Administrator

The PACS Administrator is responsible for the administration, support, optimization, integration, and ongoing maintenance of the organization’s Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), enterprise imaging platforms, and related radiology information systems. This role serves as the primary liaison between clinical operations, radiologists, imaging technologists, physicians, vendors, and Information Technology teams to ensure reliable image acquisition, storage, distribution, retrieval, and workflow efficiency across the enterprise. The analyst will provide operational support, troubleshooting, application configuration, workflow optimization, user training, system upgrades, interface management, and vendor coordination while ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations and imaging standards. Specific duties include, but are not limited to: PACS Administration & Support Administer and support PACS, enterprise imaging, VNA, and imaging workflow applications. Monitor system performance, uptime, storage utilization, and image routing processes. Troubleshoot and resolve application, workflow, image delivery, and user access issues. Perform root cause analysis for imaging workflow disruptions and recurring system problems. Manage user provisioning, security roles, and access controls. Coordinate software upgrades, patches, releases, and maintenance activities. Clinical Workflow Optimization Collaborate with radiologists, technologists, and operational leadership to improve imaging workflows. Analyze existing workflows and recommend system enhancements to increase efficiency and productivity. Configure worklists, hanging protocols, routing rules, reporting workflows, and image lifecycle management processes. Participate in enterprise imaging and radiology transformation initiatives. Systems Integration Support and maintain integration between PACS, RIS, EMR/EHR, VNA, modality systems, and third-party applications. Troubleshoot HL7, DICOM, FHIR, and interface-re