Consultant, Imaging Systems

Job-:
Information Technology

Location:

Brentwood, TN, United States Workplace:
Hybrid

Schedule:

Full time, Day Posted: FTE: 1.0 - 80 hr/pp (Full Time)
Career Site Category:
Information Technology Position Type:
Primary Is this position grant-funded?:
No

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…