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Posted: 18-Aug-24
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Salary: Open
Categories:
Operations
Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of diverse individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.
Organization:
HealthIT Enterprise Imaging Ap
Job Summary:
Overview and Career Interest:
Vanderbilt University Medical Center's HealthIT department seeks a qualified, highly experienced Imaging Analyst with analytics experience to join their innovative Enterprise Imaging team. HealthIT provides for the best health information technology tools that support Vanderbilt University Medical Center's (VUMC) mission and commitments. Managing more than 2 million patient visits each year, VUMC is one of the largest academic medical centers in the Southeast. It is the primary resource for specialty and primary care in hundreds of adult and pediatric specialties for patients throughout Tennessee and the Mid-South. The School of Medicine's biomedical research program is among the nation's top 10 in terms of National Institutes of Health peer review funding, receiving more than $500 million in public and private awards during 2016.
The Medical Center is the region's locus of postgraduate medical education, with over 1,000 residents and fellows training in more than 100 specialty areas. Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital and the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt are recognized each year by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals rankings as national leaders, with 19 nationally ranked adult and pediatric specialties. Through the Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network, VUMC is working with over 60 hospitals and 5,000 clinicians across Tennessee and five neighboring states to share best practices and bring value-driven and cost-effective health care to the Mid-South.
VUMC has a massive enterprise imaging repository with two decades of imaging data. In any given year, VUMC performs over 1,100,000 imaging studies. We are seeking candidates that meet the qualifications, experience, and requirements below who are dedicated to the mission of providing the best in healthcare through information technology. This is a full-time position with Vanderbilt University Medical Center and offers challenge, career growth and the opportunity to join a highly collaborative team dedicated to excellence in healthcare.
Job Summary:
As an Enterprise Imaging analyst, the individual would be primarily responsible for the full support of Enterprise Imaging applications with special focus in analytics which includes but not limited to developing and implementing data models, data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Manage large data sets to support the Vice-Chair of Radiology through the interpretation of the combined data into relevant observations.
Utilize project management concepts to plan and successfully execute projects related to new deployments, upgrades, and clinical expansion.
Responsible for ensuring the 24x7 stability and overall performance of the PACS systems to include associated applications, devices, and modalities that integrate with the PACS system.
Ability to troubleshoot modalities and associated 3rd party applications with the PACS systems such as configuring network configuration, modality worklist, and DICOM configurations.
Utilizing both clinical and technical skillsets, develop, maintain, and enhance clinical imaging workflows in collaboration with clinical operations.
Must be willing to serve as a liaison between clinicians, vendors, and other IT teams utilizing strong professional communication, and collaboration.
24x7 on call rotation including weekends and holidays.
Must remain current with industry imaging knowledge especially in relation to PACS and associated new trends.
Must be willing to be responsible for creating, configuring, and maintaining PACS system reports for purposes of daily PACS monitoring.
The key functions and responsibilities listed serve as a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.
Preferred Skills and Accomplishments
Experience with Imaging workflows, and ability to translate clinical requirements to IT deliverables. (Highly Preferred).
Experience in collecting, analyzing and interpreting data with ability to identify trends using tools such as workflow analytics and tech QA. (Highly Preferred)
Experience in data visualization tools such as PowerBI and Tableau. (Preferred)
Experience in query languages such as SQL, Python.
CIIP, CPHIMS, CDIP, CPSA and/or CPAS certification or have the equivalent years of direct PACS administrative imaging experience. (Highly Preferred)
Project management experience for Radiology or Cardiology projects such as implementing a new application system or upgrading an existing application. (Highly Preferred)
Hands-on-experience with implementing, maintaining, and troubleshooting imaging workflows (clinical and/or technical). (Preferred)
Expertise with all aspects of the DICOM standard.
CVIS or RIS experience (such as Epic Cupid or Radiant).
HIS/EHR experience (such as Epic).
HL7 interfacing experience including maintenance and troubleshooting.
Voice Dictation Application experience (such as PowerScribe360/PowerScribe One).
Proficient in Microsoft Office applications include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Position Qualifications:
TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES:
* Configuration Management and Planning (Novice): Competent to apply changes or develop new functions based on understanding of the design of the system. Collaborates with knowledgeable users and customers in meeting their business needs. Participates in basic configuration management planning. Manages tasks, schedules activities, and organizes work to meet plan deadlines. Critically evaluates implications of technological changes. Able to interpret business data as it applies to configuration management.
* Technical Analysis (Novice): Knows most major/common assigned product group functions. Demonstrates ability to analyze and develop solutions to moderately complex clinical, administrative, financial, operational, and/or technical issues related to assigned product(s). Capable to design, build, configure, install, run reports, and perform maintenance support as instructed. Successfully handles basic break/fix service issues. Demonstrates ability to break down work into manageable and measurable units. Organizes work and meets deadlines.
* Testing (Novice): Competent to develop new and execute pre-designed program test data, load testing, and ensures validity of data passed among programs. Understands and uses quality assurance processes, tools, and scripts for testing purposes.
* Product Knowledge (Novice): Understands the product in relation to other company products. Has general knowledge of the competition for the product in the marketplace. Understands the product life cycle from development through sales and customer support. Can describe product features and benefits using key product terminology.
* Problem Management (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate knowledge of Incident Tracking and Problem Reporting in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Writes problem reports that contain all of the necessary information for clear, non-antagonistic communication to those responsible for fixing problems. Can effectively explain how to reproduce and analyze errors, as well as identify the type of error including coding, design issue and hardware. Makes simple suggestions for correction.
* Business Knowledge (Novice): Understands customers' business operations beyond single issues driving a project. Demonstrates the ability to apply functional business knowledge to successfully meet work objectives. Has worked closely with knowledgeable users and customers in meeting their business needs. Demonstrates a good sense of the business when dealing with others. Critically evaluates the customer implications of technological advances. Knows and monitors the competition. Able to interpret business data.
About the Department:
Health IT
HealthIT provides the best health information technology tools that support Vanderbilt University Medical Center's mission of:
- Delivering distinctively personalized care
- Improving the health care of individuals and communities regionally, nationally and internationally
- Providing transformative learning programs
- Supporting compelling discoveries
Our tools, which form the digital arteries of VUMC, are either developed in-house by our innovative product teams or selected from the most cutting-edge solutions available in today's ever-changing marketplace. Our 500 colleagues provide ongoing support over each product's entire lifespan, ensuring that the tools are meeting the evolving needs of the Medical Center's 24,000 colleagues.
Our solutions are driven by the incredible work and research of our colleagues throughout Vanderbilt and supported through a close partnership with VUMC Information Technology (VUMC IT). The strong collaboration among our teams means that VUMC can respond to clinical and operational issues with agility and innovation. Together, we ensure VUMC remains a leader in its pioneering use of healthcare information technology.
Underscoring our entire department are our core values of accountability, transparency and execution, delivered with a strong Partner Promise.
Our professional administrative functions include critical supporting roles in information technology and informatics, finance, administration, legal and community affairs, human resources, communications and marketing, development, facilities, and many more.
At our growing health system, we support each other and encourage excellence among all who are part of our workforce. High-achieving employees stay at Vanderbilt Health for professional growth, appreciation of benefits, and a sense of community and purpose.
Core Accountabilities:
Organizational Impact: Executes job responsibilities with the understanding of how output would affect and impact other areas related to own job area/team with occasional guidance. Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Analyzes moderately complex problems using technical experience and judgment. Breadth of Knowledge: Has expanded knowledge gained through experience within a professional area. Team Interaction: Provides informal guidance and support to team members.
Core Capabilities :
Supporting Colleagues:- Develops Self and Others: Invests time, energy, and enthusiasm in developing self/others to help improve performance e and gain knowledge in new areas.- Builds and Maintains Relationships: Maintains regular contact with key colleagues and stakeholders using formal and informal opportunities to expand and strengthen relationships.- Communicates Effectively: Recognizes group interactions and modifies one's own communication style to suit different situations and audiences. Delivering Excellent Services:- Serves Others with Compassion: Seeks to understand current and future needs of relevant stakeholders and customizes services to better address them.- Solves Complex Problems: Approaches problems from different angles; Identifies new possibilities to interpret opportunities and develop concrete solutions.- Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Provides ongoing support and coaching in a constructive manner to increase employees' effectiveness. Ensuring High Quality: - Performs Excellent Work: Engages regularly in formal and informal dialogue about quality; directly addresses quality issues promptly.- Ensures Continuous Improvement: Applies various learning experiences by looking beyond symptoms to uncover underlying causes of problems and identifies ways to resolve them. - Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Understands all aspects of providing a safe environment and performs routine safety checks to prevent safety hazards from occurring. Managing Resources Effectively: - Demonstrates Accountability: Demonstrates a sense of ownership, focusing on and driving critical issues to closure.- Stewards Organizational Resources: Applies understanding of the departmental work to effectively manage resources for a department/area.- Makes Data Driven Decisions: Demonstrates strong understanding of the information or data to identify and elevate opportunities. Fostering Innovation:- Generates New Ideas: Proactively identifies new ideas/opportunities from multiple sources or methods to improve processes beyond conventional approaches.- Applies Technology: Demonstrates an enthusiasm for learning new technologies, tools, and procedures to address short-term challenges.- Adapts to Change: Views difficult situations and/or problems as opportunities for improvement; actively embraces change instead of emphasizing negative elements.
Position Qualifications:
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Work Experience:
Relevant Work Experience
Experience Level:
2 years
Education:
Bachelor's
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