Dr. Vishwanath R S, MD, CIIP

Dr. Vishwanath R S, MD, CIIP

Co-Founder & CEO, SOMATIQ · LinkedIn

About

Dr. Vishwanath R S is a practising radiologist and the Co-Founder and CEO of SOMATIQ, a Bengaluru company building a unified, AI-native RIS + PACS + reporting platform. He holds an MD in Radiodiagnosis and is a Certified Imaging Informatics Professional (CIIP), a credential issued by the American Board of Imaging Informatics.

By his own count he has read more than 100,000 scans in his career. That time at the reporting desk is where most of his writing starts: the worklist that keeps moving, the distance between the radiologist and the patient, and the software that either helps a radiologist through the day or gets in the way.

He co-founded SOMATIQ with Naveen K in 2025 with a three-member team. His writing comes from the clinical side: where AI belongs in the reading workflow, which in his view is alongside the radiologist rather than in place of them.

On this blog he writes about teleradiology and the economics of radiology in India, what AI in clinical practice should be specified to do, and why a radiologist should care about imaging informatics. He also reviews the clinical content of SOMATIQ's posts before they are published (see our editorial policy).

Areas he writes about

  • Clinical radiology practice and the radiologist's working day
  • Teleradiology in India and how reporting services are bought and run
  • The economics of imaging centres and radiology software
  • AI in clinical radiology: where it helps, and what it must be specified to do
  • Imaging informatics from a radiologist's side

Posts by Dr. Vishwanath R S, MD, CIIP

Latest · Perspectives

Why a radiologist studies imaging informatics

A radiologist on what imaging informatics is, what the ABII's CIIP credential involves, and why radiologists should help build radiology software.

Buyer guides

How to choose a teleradiology partner

How to choose teleradiology services in India: who reads, credential checks, peer review, turnaround, AI disclosure, liability, DPDP, integration and pricing.

Perspectives

Beyond the algorithm

Why the model is not the hardest part of medical AI: noisy labels, missing clinical context, shortcut learning and the factors that decide real clinical impact.

Perspectives

The real total cost of radiology software

A radiologist on the real total cost of radiology software: why cheap PACS becomes expensive, and what to ask a vendor beyond the lowest price.

Perspectives

SOMATIQ at one year

SOMATIQ turns one: from a three-member team to 100+ imaging centres in 3 countries. The founders on the people who shaped the first year, and what comes next.

Perspectives

Radiology in India is commoditised

Radiology in India is commoditised: affordable, available and fast, but with eroding quality and expertise. A radiologist asks whether AI can fix the downsides.

Perspectives

AI is with the radiologist

Dr. Vishwanath R S on hosting Dr. Vimal Raj, why AI in radiology needs a strong imaging platform first, and what "AI with the radiologist" means.

Perspectives

Teleradiology in India is structurally broken

A radiologist on why teleradiology in India is structurally broken: race-to-the-bottom pricing, weak oversight, unclear AI use and what hospitals should demand.

Perspectives

The worklist doesn't care

A radiologist who has read 100,000+ scans on the distance between radiologist and patient, and why the real AI question is whether it lets us be human again.

Perspectives

The most compressed decade

From mechanising muscle to augmenting cognition: a radiologist on why 2020 was a turning point for AI, and what the next decade means for healthcare.

Perspectives

Radiology did not fail AI

A radiologist on why AI in radiology overpromised since 2017, what LLMs and VLMs change, and why AI should augment radiologists rather than replace them.