Equipment & modality management
Every machine registered with its AE title, conformance notes and DICOM echo heartbeat. AMC expiry, preventive maintenance and downtime tracked in the same place.
RIS + PACS, built into your HIS
Your radiology department, from the order to the signed report.
Caresoft Imaging connects every modality in your hospital, moves studies to the radiologist in seconds, and pushes the signed report straight back into the patient record. One vendor. One login. One support desk.
1,000+
Hospitals running Caresoft
12+
Countries
20 yrs
Healthcare IT, bootstrapped
Radiologist worklist
CT1 · connected
MR1 · connected
DX1 · connected
6 studies unread
Worklist published to 4 modalities
Archive 1.42 TB · projected full Mar 2028
The gap
Most hospitals run two systems that do not speak to each other.
The HIS knows the order, the bill and the bed. The PACS knows the images. Between them sits a technician retyping patient names, a radiologist chasing a prior study, and a referring doctor waiting on a report that was signed two hours ago. Caresoft Imaging closes that gap because it is built by the people who built your HIS.
Order to archive to report
How a study moves
Ten steps, no retyping, no orphan studies.
01
Order raised
A radiology order is placed in Caresoft HIS. An accession number is generated at that moment and becomes the key everything else joins on.
02
Slot booked
The order is scheduled against a specific machine, with the procedure duration and prep instructions sent to the patient.
03
Worklist published
The patient appears on the modality worklist. The technician selects a name instead of typing one.
04
Images acquired
The machine sends the study over DICOM to the archive on your own network. Nothing leaves the hospital unless you route it out.
05
Study indexed
The archive signals that the study is complete. Metadata is pulled, matched on the accession number, and indexed.
06
Allocated
The study lands on a radiologist worklist by subspecialty, rotation or manual assignment, with an SLA clock already running.
07
Read and reported
Priors are fetched automatically. The radiologist reports from a template, with structured fields where they feed analytics.
08
Verified and signed
Draft, verify, e-sign. Every version is kept. Critical findings trigger a notification and an acknowledgement record.
09
Delivered
The report goes back into the HIS record and out to the patient and referring doctor, with a timestamp for each.
10
Measured
Every transition above is a timestamp, so turnaround time, utilisation and repeat rate are facts rather than estimates.
What you get
Eleven modules. One product.
Everything a radiology department needs to run, measure and prove itself.
Orders & scheduling
Orders arrive from Caresoft HIS with the accession number already generated. Slot-based scheduling per modality, prep instructions sent to the patient before they arrive.
Modality worklist
The technician selects the patient on the console instead of typing the name. That single change removes the most common cause of mismatched studies.
Ingestion & reconciliation
Studies land, metadata syncs, index rows write. Anything arriving without a matching order goes to an unmatched queue and is reconciled with a full audit trail.
Technician workflow
Acquisition start and stop, repeat and reject analysis with reason codes, contrast log with batch number, film and consumable usage posted back to inventory.
Radiologist worklist & reporting
Configurable worklist, automatic prior fetch, template library, macros, structured fields, draft and verify, e-sign, and full version history that is never overwritten.
Critical findings
Flag it, notify the referring doctor instantly, capture the acknowledgement, escalate if nobody responds. Your NABH evidence writes itself.
Teleradiology
Forward studies to a central node, allocate to internal, empanelled or outsourced radiologists, watch the SLA clock, and reconcile partner billing monthly.
Report delivery
Back into the HIS record, out to the patient by WhatsApp or QR, and into the referring physician portal. Signed, verifiable, and traceable to the moment it was viewed.
Storage & lifecycle
Growth projections, hot-to-cold tiering, retention rules by patient category, verified backups, and a study export tool you can run yourself.
MIS & analytics
Turnaround time, modality utilisation, repeat and reject rate, radiologist productivity, revenue by referrer. Drill from a number to the study behind it.
Under the hood
Standards underneath, Caresoft on top
Caresoft Imaging speaks DICOM the way every modality expects: C-STORE, C-FIND, C-MOVE, Modality Worklist, MPPS and DICOMweb. Images are stored by a hardened, standards-compliant archive service. Your workflow, reporting, delivery and analytics are pure Caresoft. Nothing is locked in a proprietary format, and your studies can be exported at any time.
Report turnaround you can prove
Every timestamp from order to verified signature is captured, so TAT stops being an argument and becomes a number.
No second login
Radiology sits inside the same Caresoft account, role matrix and audit log your hospital already uses.
No data hostage
Studies stay in standard DICOM and can be exported in bulk whenever you ask.
One support desk
The same team that supports your HIS supports your imaging. No vendor pointing at the other vendor.
From the departments running it
What changes in the first month
The change we noticed first was not the images. It was that nobody types a patient name at the CT console any more. Our orphan studies went to zero in the first month.
Multi-speciality Hospital · 240 beds
Coimbatore, India
We ran two vendors for eleven years and spent half our support calls establishing whose problem it was. One vendor for HIS and imaging ended that argument permanently.
Group Hospital · 410 beds
Kolkata, India
The critical findings acknowledgement log was the single item our NABH assessor spent the longest on, and it was the easiest thing we produced.
Charitable Trust Hospital · 175 beds
Pune, India
Our radiologist reads from home three nights a week now. Same worklist, same templates, no VPN gymnastics for him to learn.
District Referral Hospital · 120 beds
Nairobi, Kenya
Storage was the thing we had underestimated for years. Seeing the projected exhaustion date on a dashboard changed how we budget.
Speciality Hospital · 150 beds
Kochi, India
Questions we are asked before every install
Straight answers
Yes. Almost every modality manufactured in the last two decades speaks DICOM, and Caresoft Imaging connects over standard DICOM services: C-STORE for receiving images, Modality Worklist for sending the patient list to the console, and MPPS where the machine supports it. Each machine is registered with its AE title and tested during installation. Genuinely legacy analogue equipment can be brought in through a frame grabber or manual upload.
Both are supported. Most hospitals run a site node inside their own LAN so that image retrieval stays on local network speed, with optional forwarding to a Caresoft cloud node for teleradiology. Smaller clinics and diagnostic centres often run cloud-only over a VPN. The application is the same in either case.
A hospital running CT, MRI and routine radiography typically generates between 1.5 and 3 TB per year. Multiply that by your retention requirement, add about 30 percent headroom, and plan backup capacity at roughly twice the primary. Caresoft Imaging shows consumed storage, growth rate and a projected exhaustion date so this stops being a surprise.
Natively. Orders, patient demographics, ADT movements, billing status and patient merges flow from the HIS into imaging, and study status, finalised reports, image links and consumable usage flow back. It is a single sign-on and a single audit trail, not a bridge between two products.
The Caresoft Imaging web viewer is provided for clinical review, referring physician access and patient access. A viewer used for primary diagnostic interpretation is regulated as a software medical device, and Caresoft is pursuing that certification as a separate track. Where a hospital requires a certified primary-read viewer today, Caresoft Imaging runs alongside one and continues to own the order, worklist, reporting, delivery and analytics.
They stay in standard DICOM format and can be exported in bulk at any time using the built-in export tool. Nothing is held in a proprietary container. We would rather earn the renewal than trap the data.
Yes. Remote reading is a core capability rather than an add-on. Studies can be forwarded to a central node, allocated to internal, empanelled or outsourced radiologists, and read in a browser with the same worklist and templates used inside the hospital. SLA clocks and the audit trail stay in your system.
A single-modality proof of concept usually runs in a day. A full department, with all modalities connected, templates loaded, users trained and HIS integration live, typically takes four to eight weeks depending on the number of machines and how much legacy data is being migrated.
Insights
Writing from the implementation side
Teleradiology models for Indian hospitals: which one fits you
In-house after-hours cover, empanelled radiologists, or a full outsourced partner. What each costs you in money, control and turnaround.
Read →NABH requirements for a radiology department: the evidence you need
The documentation NABH assessors actually ask for in radiology, and how to produce it as a by-product of daily work rather than a scramble before the visit.
Read →How to reduce radiology report turnaround time without hiring
TAT is usually lost in four specific gaps, none of which are the radiologist reading speed. Here is how to find them in your own data and close them.
Read →Implementation and support
Where our teams work
See it running on your own machines
We will connect one modality at your site, send a real study through, and show you the report reaching the patient. Usually inside a day.