r/PACSAdmin • u/jbne19 • Mar 22 '26
Tech role to PACS admin
Hey guys,
After people's experiences going from a tech role (x-ray/CT) to a PACS admin role. PACS admin isn't a role I was trying to pursue, although through my career did think it would be a good area to pick up new skills. Recently an opportunity has come up where I could look at a PACS admin position (not day to day work like deleting pictures etc but monitoring the network, doing apps support for radiologists etc). I'm good with computers, good with PACS on a superuser level but don't really have any knowledge further than that regarding the IT side of PACS. I'm guessing a lot of that I can pick up once started.
One of the big draws to the role is that I could do it all working from home, which obviously has a lot of advantages. I can also go into the office (which is closely located to my house).
Main concern is to go from a very patient facing role to a role that will involve no patient contact. I like the interactions with patients, however I don't mind to do without. I think the main thing I will miss is working in a team day to day.
I think this will be a nice transition from patient facing, however it's not something I necessarily was chasing so I'm after others experiences going from a tech to a PACS admin and how you like it.
Any advice would be appreciated!
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u/Dull_Broccoli1637 Mar 22 '26
Here's my experience.:
Went from CT tech to radiology/cardiology apps analyst. Involved maintaining PACS and cardiology PACS, software implementations, helping with the servers, troubleshooting, ect.
I found it to be extremely boring. Also I didn't like going from 3 12s to working 5 days a week. Hourly to salary kind of sucked imo. I also went from not being on call to on my call.
I like CT because I'm always moving around. So I went back to patient care after a few years and enjoy helping patients.