This course is day-long instruction and review of the recommended content and skill set needed for a PACS Administrator or an Imaging Informatics Professional. The course content follows the content listed for a typical certification examination and is intended also as a preparation workshop. The staff sometimes is encouraged to take a PACS Administration position and never gets formally trained or doesn’t feel they know what is needed to do the job.

This course can enhance that knowledge and increase proficiency and bring success. Methodical instruction takes the student through the topics that are familiar to the jobs and expands upon them, interjecting with real world experiences and interactive discussion. Presented by an experienced professional, this program will cover the inner workings of Imaging Informatics from the traditional local PACS, to the eventual transition to an advanced Enterprise Imaging system.

You will leave with an understanding of:

• What to expect from an Imaging Informatics certification examination and validate readiness to succeed.
• What is expected of a PACS Administrator now and in the near future.
• How we can optimize what tools we have and be able to justify better ones.
• If the attendees are IT based, they will learn clinical content
• If attendees are Clinical based, they will learn IT content
• Clinical Informatics and how all departments contribute to the healthcare big picture
• Participant will leave the course with actionable information that can be immediately used to operate and expand a multi-departmental PACS with an eye on future growth to meet organizational needs and optimal patient care.
• What is included in a Needs Assessment for Imaging Informatics and how it meets strategic goals; the elements of a feasibility study such as Cost-Benefit analysis and ROI; technical specifications for software, hardware, and service and how they impact selection criteria
• The Project Management process, scope, risks and constraints, tools for monitoring progress such as collaboration, timelines, and a variety of charts and lists (PERT, GANTT chart, milestones, critical path, tasks, and schedules).
• Review of CIIP testing guide, understanding the test structure with content weighting and testing rules. Experience a simulated CIIP Certification examination under simulated testing conditions.
• Mock Examination simulation. Evaluation of simulated examination responses by examinee and reason for that response if incorrect. Discussing the rationale behind the appropriate answers during a group review and how to retain the knowledge.
• Existing CIIP credentialed participants can get CE credit for CIIP renewal requirements and also count for ARRT and other clinical credentials.

• Presentations/lectures
• Quizzes and evaluations 
• Using brainstorming techniques, images, and graphics for quality learning
• Group discussions
• Feedback discussion of the previous session activities
• Course material (Electronic Copy)
• Certificate with ASRT approved Credits

This course is designed for Junior level imaging professionals who want to enter the challenging world of Imaging Informatics.

• Radiologic Technologists
• Imaging Specialists
• Current PACS Administrators and field engineers who wish to update their knowledge.
• Also, RT's, hospital IT staff and personnel who are actively involved in PACS selection, planning and implementation will benefit from this course.
• Those who want to become PACS Admin .
• Those who want to take CIIP and CPAS exams

Instructor of this course

Ronald W. Gilbert

MS, RT (R), CIIP

Manager, Enterprise Imaging & Informatics, WellStar Health System, Atlanta, GA
Instructor: PACS and Imaging Informatics
MS IS Mgmt, Health Informatics
B.S. Radiologic Sciences,
R.T. (R), (ARRT), CIIP (ABII)

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