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CPHIMS, CIIP, Specialist Diploma in PACS Administration, Master of Health Informatics, you name your education pursuit and we'll discuss further on it.
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This forum is dedicated for the CHITR Journal and serves as a means o communication between authors and editors as well as a feedback channel for subscribers.
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New here? A place for CHITR newcomers (and others who wish to!) to introduce themselves to the community
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Confused about the latest buzz on Vendor Neutral Archive / Architecture (VNAs)? Not sure if a PACS provider's claim on their archive being is vendor-neutral is the truth or twisted fantasies? Let us discuss the real deal here!
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 Role Description:
• Second Tier support for ImageCast and ConnectR
• Second Tier support and/or triage for other applications supported by this pillar.
• Analyze and fix issues and document resolution if not already documented for ImageCast and other applications.
• Assist in resolving issues related to ImageCast for the Epic 2010 upgrade testing, go live and post-implementation.
• Complete build tasks and work order tasks as assigned
Skills:
• Working knowledge of ImageCast 10.3.9, Stentor PACS 3.5, Powerscribe 4.61b, Radiant, and Philips Xcelera.
• Local candidate preferred but remote work may be possible for the person with the right qualifications once the person is trained.
• Status report is expected every Friday at 5pm to Analytical and Diagnostic Application team manager or their designee noting number of closed tickets, number of escalated tickets and status of duties assigned
• Some weekend work may be required around go-lives; otherwise this position is a M-F position
• No overtime unless pre-approved by Analytical and Diagnostic Application team manager
Tony Matthews
BalancePoint Healthcare Technology
913-219-3899
Are you an Imaging Informatics Professional (or supporting staff) working in a healthcare facility or solution provider?Did you miss the inaugural International PACS Administrator Appreciation Day?Fret not, mark your calenders, the 27th August 2010 (your local time) is the 2nd annual International PACS Administrator Appreciation Day.About the International PACS Administrator Appreciation DayInspired by the World Radiographer Day (for radiologic technologists) and Systems Administrator Day (for IT Professionals), Medical Imaging Informatics Professional (aka PACS Administrator) now have a day of celebration of their own, the International PACS Administrator Appreciation Day- the first such celebration for healthcare informatics professional in the world.PACS Administrators are the ones who keeps your PACS system operational, fixing broken studies, ensuring images load within three seconds upon clicking ‘ok’, enforcing data and image integrity, ensuring that yours PACS system is healthy, safe, secure and efficient . Consider all the daunting tasks and long hours and weekends your PACS Administrator spends (for you system upgrades and maintenance).“A PACS Administrator is like a Train Station Master, you only notice them when things are not working (and ignoring their presence when they keep things in order)”And let’s be frank, PACS Administrators get no acknowledge 364 days a year, so lets pay homage to these great men (and women) on this very special day, let’s showered them with expensive sports cars and large piles of cash in appreciation of their diligent work. But seriously, secretaries get flowers and cake on their day, why not give your PACS Administrator a nice gift as a token of appreciation and acknowledgement on the 27th August 2010?Show your appreciation, spread the word.To learn more about International PACS Administrator Appreciation Day, go to www.PACSAdminDay.comP.S. Please send in photos of your celebration and we’ll showcase it in www.PACSAdminDay.com
Dear fellow health informatics professionals, Allow me to get the ball rolling in the introduction section :) My name is Adam and I hail from Singapore. I'm currently running binaryHealthCare.com , a social enterprise advocating Health IT as an enabler for “better patient care at lower cost” by raising the standards of health informatics through training, continuing education and providing a vendor neutral community for knowledge exchange and collaboration (this is where ClubPACS comes in). ClubPACS is a community portal, this means that you (a member of the community) owns it as much as I do so please do contribute to ClubPACS and lets us make it successful. Cheers Adam
Dear recruiters, job seekers (and those just browsing) :) This section is for the posting of available openings (worldwide) as well as questions about resumes, jobs, interviews, etc. We do have resident experts who are experience headhunters and career advisers who would be able to help on these areas so do feel free to raise your questions. Regards Adam
By James Chen, MD and Paul Nagy, PhD
From the Economic News Release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor: "Employment in the information industry declined by 13,000 in July [2008] and by 44,000 over the past 12 months." In this type of economic environment, downsizing is an unfortunate reality. Even in the current challenging environment, there are strategies to not only stay employed but also to grow your career. We recently brainstormed some ideas on ways to demonstrate your current value, add new value, and grow as a knowledge professional.
10. Improve relationships: Spend time in radiology reading rooms and observe how your customers, the radiologists, use IT systems. These are the people who will speak up in your defense. A PACS system is like Microsoft Office: most people only use 5% of it capabilities. You may be surprised at useful and hidden features you can introduce to them; you will be immediately available for questions. The experience will increase your understanding of problem areas in the system, which can help in vendor discussions.
9. Aid communication with IT tools: As practices expand or move, communication among technologists and radiologists can be challenging. Decreasing the barriers to communication can increase quality. Consider adding communications tools for internal communication, such as issue tracking for quality issues or secure instant messaging for less time-critical communication. This encourages less time-critical, but valuable communication.
8. Examine systems for problem areas: No IT installation is perfect; identifying recurrent problem areas and improving their function or uptime can make a tremendous impact in departmental productivity, which translates into increased departmental revenue. Consider using freely available software, such as Nagios, or devices to centralize monitoring of multiple systems to notify you of impending system failures before they occur. These tools make you more efficient and effective.
7. Link PACS systems to decision support systems: Almost all PACS systems have the ability to launch a web page at a click of a button. As radiologists are further inundated with increasingly large number of studies and images per study, rapid access to decision support systems is critical for maintaining smooth and rapid workflow. Powerful online support tools for radiologists that are freely available include Yottalook.com and Goldminer.arrs.org. The RSNA has put many clinical resources for radiologists together at myrsna.rsna.org.
6. Innovate, disseminate and archive: Start communicating consistently with your users. Roll-out new tools and updates or start an IT newsletter. Include frequent tips using each new tool as well as for features in existing systems that may be useful but hard-to-find. Maintain a searchable archive to create a publically viewable list of successes and an internal institutional memory for previous successful strategies.
5. Become visible to leadership: A well-run IT shop risks falling into the "paradox of excellence." When things run well, no one knows what efforts went into preventing near disaster; it is when failures occur that IT is most visible, and not in the good way. To demonstrate the value of yourself and your group, consider maintaining a public web presence through newsletters or wikis (freely available self-authoring websites) to document the value of the IT organization, and to keep the leadership and customers abreast of new developments.
4. Apply existing skills to new areas: The expertise you have in managing enterprise systems probably applies to other areas of the organization. Cardiology may have their own imaging systems; aiding in a synergistic consolidation can reduce overall costs. Pooling of resources may enable purchasing better systems. Working with other departments also allows cross-pollination of great ideas and systems practices.
3. Learn new skills: Read journals and keep up with new developments. When you are asked about new useful developments, you will already be able discuss possible applications and limitations. This will assist in the evaluation of new technologies and possibly prevent wasting valuable resources on dead-end or underperforming technologies. There are powerful open source toolkits available to help learn HL7 and DICOM such as Mirth or DCM4CHE.
2. Improve quality: Quality can be measured in numerous ways, which are limited only by your imagination. This includes, but is not limited to, data and image quality at the acquisition modality, display and monitor calibration, tracking radiation dose per patient, and typographical/speech recognition errors in reports to report turnaround time, among others. Find an obvious area important to the administration and apply informatics tools to help measure and improve.
1. Add value by providing real-time operational data: There is a wealth of useful data within your existing systems waiting to be mined and used for improving the efficiency and quality of the organization. Tap into your existing HL7 and DICOM data streams. Instead of providing management old data with paper-based reports run once-a-month, real-time data can be crucial for operational decision making, especially for high-level administrators. Management doesn't even know that a PACS system can be a great source of information to better understand scanner utilization or patient flow.
The overall message is to learn to listen to what your customers need to do their job. The better you listen, the more opportunities you will see to not just keep employed, but to become indispensable. A personal relationship with customers is the main thing that cannot be outsourced.
Dr. Chen is Instructor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Nagy is Director, Quality and Informatics Research, and Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Maryland.
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