Consultant, Imaging Systems

Consultant, Imaging Systems

Location: Brentwood, TN | Hybrid

*Potential for up to 50% travel 

Lifepoint Health has an opportunity for a Consultant, Imaging Systems. 

About Lifepoint Health:

Lifepoint Health is a leading healthcare provider driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier®. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 34 states and includes 68 community hospital campuses, more than 70 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 300 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, including acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers, and post-acute care facilities. We believe our success is achieved through talented people and are committed to creating places where employees want to work, with opportunities to build meaningful and rewarding careers that make a lasting difference in communities across the country.

Summary:

The Consultant, Imaging Systems serves as a senior individual contributor responsible for the strategy, design, implementation, optimization, integration, and ongoing support of enterprise clinical imaging technologies. This role partners with clinical, operational, information technology, cybersecurity, vendor, and facility stakeholders to translate business and patient-care needs into reliable, secure, and scalable imaging solutions. The Consultant provides technical leadership across the imaging ecosystem, including picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), vendor-neutral archives (VNA), radiology and cardiology applications, image exchange, diagnostic viewing, and related interfaces. The position supports standardization, system availability, data integrity, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement across Lifepoint Health facilities.

Essential Functions:

• Provides subject-matter expertise and technical leadership for enterprise imaging platforms, workflows, integrations, and infrastructure across radiology, cardiology, and other image-producing clinical departments.

•  Leads or supports requirements definition, solution design, configuration, testing, implementation, upgrades, migrations, and stabilization activities for PACS, VNA, diagnostic viewers, image exchange, and related clinical imaging applications.

• Collaborates with clinical and operational leaders to assess workflows, identify opportunities, and recommend standardized solutions that improve clinician experience, efficiency, quality, patient safety, and continuity of care.

• Designs, validates, and supports interoperability among imaging systems, electronic health records, modalities, archives, and ancillary applications using healthcare standards and protocols such as DICOM, HL7, FHIR, and related web services.

• Monitors system performance, capacity, data quality, interface integrity, and availability; leads advanced incident investigation, root-cause analysis, problem management, and corrective action for complex or recurring issues.

• Develops and maintains technical standards, architecture documentation, configuration records, support procedures, test plans, change documentation, and system lifecycle roadmaps.

• Partners with cybersecurity, infrastructure, networking, identity and access management, privacy, and compliance teams to ensure imaging technologies meet organizational security, resilience, access, retention, and regulatory requirements.

• Coordinates vendor performance, technical escalations, maintenance activities, and solution evaluations; contributes technical analysis to contracts, statements of work, budgeting, and capital planning as requested.

• Provides consultative guidance, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to analysts, support teams, facility resources, and project participants without direct supervisory responsibility.

• Participates in project governance, change control, disaster recovery and business continuity planning, on-call support, and scheduled after-hours activities as required to maintain critical clinical services.

• Performs other duties and special projects as assigned in support of Clinical Technology and Acute Systems priorities.

Education, Experience, Knowledge, and Skills:  

Education:  

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, biomedical engineering, healthcare administration, clinical discipline, or a related field required. An equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be considered.
• Master’s degree and relevant professional certification, such as CIIP, PMP, ITIL, or applicable vendor certification, preferred.

Experience:  

• Seven or more years of progressively responsible experience supporting, implementing, integrating, or optimizing healthcare information technology systems, including substantial experience with enterprise clinical imaging technologies.
• Experience in a multi-hospital or complex healthcare environment, leading large-scale imaging implementations or migrations, and coordinating cross-functional teams and vendors preferred.

Knowledge and Skills: 

• Advanced knowledge of clinical imaging workflows and technologies, including PACS, VNA, diagnostic viewing, image exchange, modality connectivity, DICOM, HL7, and related interoperability concepts.
• Working knowledge of healthcare technology architecture, networking, databases, cloud and hosted solutions, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, change management, and service management practices.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex technical and clinical problems, synthesize data, assess risk, develop practical recommendations, and drive issues through resolution with limited direction.
• Strong project leadership, consultation, facilitation, documentation, prioritization, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and operational demands.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to clinical, operational, and executive audiences and influence decisions without direct authority.
• Ability to build effective relationships across disciplines, maintain confidentiality, exercise sound judgment, and work independently and collaboratively in a dynamic healthcare environment.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and perform work outside standard business hours when required for implementations, upgrades, maintenance, or critical issue response.

Organizational Expectations: 

• Maintains compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and supports hospital and department policies, procedures, and standards.
• Consistently supports the mission, vision, values, and goals of the hospital and Lifepoint Health.
• Acts in a positive, proactive, and professional manner when interacting with employees, leaders, physicians, patients, visitors, and community partners.
• Maintains confidentiality, complies with HIPAA requirements, and handles sensitive business and patient information appropriately.
• Demonstrates accountability for workplace safety and completes assigned education, training, and mandatory requirements in a timely manner.
• Maintains required licensure, certification, and professional credentials, if applicable, in good standing.

Physical and Mental Demands:  

Hybrid model position that works remotely during normal business hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. 

Travel may be up to 50%.

Schedule may vary based on business necessity.

Work Environment  

Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job responsibilities.

For those working on-site, they will have a well-lit, ventilated and climate controlled office environment with routine office equipment; some equipment has moving mechanical parts.

In hospital environment, may be exposed to hazards and unusual elements, which may include but are not limited to bloodborne pathogens and / or contagious illnesses, toxic chemicals, and biohazardous materials which may require extensive safety precautions and the use of protective equipment.

Noise level in the work environment is typical for an office and/or hospital environment.

Normal business hours are: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday-Friday. However, schedules may vary by business necessity. Remote workers are expected to be available during normal business hours, unless otherwise approved by the department leader(s).

Lifepoint Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.