Picture Archiving and Communication Systems Administrator I’ve been employed as a Clinical Systems Analyst at Harbor UCLA since Late January 2009. Since my start I have been involved in addressing the many needs of the Radiology Department and addressing the needs from an IT support perspective. Originally I was assigned to the Radiology Process Improvement Team in October of 2009 to address problems identified by the CMS report. During that time, I worked to analyze the different aspect of the Radiology dept. and address document the problems and research potential solutions to the issues in the CMS report. As of 2012, I took on the role as PACS Administrator along with the current tasks of maintaining our old HIS. I functioned as project manager, system analyst, and engineer in order to understand the needs of the Radiology department. The PACS system serves as an archive for all Radiological images within the Hospital environment. Most these images include MRI, CT, MG, Ultrasound, X-Ray, Nuclear Medicine, Surgical Images and ED Trauma images. One requirement for …show more content…
As a part of the CMS report, timely interpretation of studies needed to be addressed. USROC was hired to assist Harbor staff with the project and they remain a major part of our ongoing effort to provide proper patient care for our patients. The most import aspect was to transfer images and develop a way to extract patient data without an ADT or ORM interface. We worked and created a way to extract from the DICOM header the ability to pull all required info, MRN, Accession, and other demographics from the header in order to populate their RIS. This also allowed us the ability to continue without a hiccup once Cerner came on board. Security of these images and patient data was job one in making this possible. USROC currently read over 800 studies every weekend for Harbor