Every branch. Every prior. One worklist.
The RIS-PACS for diagnostic chains: one patient record and one archive across every centre you run.
Every new centre usually means a new server, a new vendor and another login for your radiologists. SOMATIQ runs your whole chain on one RIS-PACS, from registration to signed report. A patient scanned at one branch walks into another, and their earlier study opens beside today's. Billing runs in the same system. Your next centre joins the network instead of becoming a project.
The problem
- A login per branch. A radiologist covering three centres keeps three worklists open, switches between them all day, and still misses the urgent CT waiting in the one they didn't check. The report goes out late, and the referring doctor calls the centre to ask why.
- Priors that stay at the other centre. The patient had a scan at your other branch last year, but that study sits in a different archive. The radiologist reports without the comparison or waits while the front desk phones around for it, and the patient is asked to bring their old CD.
- No chain-wide view. Each centre's turnaround, volume and billing sit in its own system and are pieced together in a spreadsheet by hand. Nobody, from the reading room to management, can see where the backlog is building until it has already built.
- Every new centre is a project. A new server, vendor visits and months of setup before the first report is signed. Until then, the new branch runs on CDs, images sent over WhatsApp and phone calls to the radiologist.
How SOMATIQ handles it
| Feature | What it means for you |
|---|---|
| Unified RIS-PACS with multi-site support | Every centre on one patient record and one archive |
| One login across centres | A radiologist sees every pending case, or filters to one centre |
| Priors across the network | Previous scans and reports from any branch open with the current study |
| Billing in the same platform | What was scanned and what was billed come from one record |
| Modality worklist | Technicians pick the patient on the scanner; nobody retypes names |
| Hybrid or cloud-only deployment | Larger centres keep an on-site PACS with cloud access; small ones run cloud-only with a lightweight pusher app |
| Zero-footprint viewer with 3D/MPR | Radiologists read from hub, branch or home in a browser |
| Patient portal, email and WhatsApp delivery | Reports and study links reach patients and referring doctors directly |
| Role-based access, MFA, audit trails, AES-256 encryption | Access rules set once for the whole chain |
How a study moves
One patient, any branch, one record. Here is what changes for each person who touches the study.
- Front desk: registration. The search covers every branch before a record is created, so a patient from another centre is found, not registered twice.
- Front desk: scheduling and billing. Booked and billed in the same system, with reminders from the smart scheduler.
- Technician: the scan. The patient is picked from the scanner's worklist, so nobody retypes names. Images go straight to the shared archive.
- Radiologist: the read. The study lands on one central worklist with priors from every branch attached, and opens in a browser at the hub, a branch or home.
- Referring doctor and patient: the report. The signed report and a study link arrive by WhatsApp or email, and every delivery is logged.
How Prima Diagnostics runs eight centres as one
Prima Diagnostics, a Bengaluru chain led by Dr Gururaj Rao, was our first flagship customer and started on an early version in late 2025. All eight centres went live in about the time usually needed for one, and referring doctors now get study links on WhatsApp. Read the Prima case study or the coverage in Digital Health News.
SOMATIQ is deployed across 130+ imaging centres in 3 countries.
Questions buyers ask
Can one RIS-PACS serve all our centres?
Yes. Every centre's modalities send to one archive, with one patient index and one worklist across sites.
What happens to our old studies?
They are migrated so priors are available. Plan this early, and don't let it hold up going live with new studies.
What if a centre's internet drops?
Medium and large centres can keep an on-site PACS that keeps working on the local network, with cloud access for remote reading.
How long does it take to add a centre?
The work is connecting modalities, setting up users and training the front desk. For Prima, the next centre joins the existing system without a separate implementation.
Can we limit what each branch sees?
Yes. Role-based access works by centre, role and function.
Further reading
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