Emergency departments and minor injury units across Northern Ireland are now benefitting from AI that helps clinicians accurately and efficiently identify bone fractures — deployed rapidly and at scale through Sectra Amplifier Services.
Sectra Amplifier Services enables healthcare organisations to integrate AI tools directly into their existing imaging workflows. Using the service, the region's BSO NIPACS+ Programme has rolled out BoneView, a fracture detection algorithm developed by AI firm Gleamer, across all five Health and Social Care Trusts.
The deployment follows a successful trial in the Northern Health and Social Care Trust, where evaluation showed the algorithm helping busy ED professionals read x-rays more accurately. The implementation is expected to help clinical teams examine more than 300,000 bone x-rays a year.
We've closely studied how our ED clinicians have benefitted from this innovative use of AI. This has helped to increase accuracy in the emergency department to a similar level seen in radiology. The result: fewer missed fractures, improved clinical decisions, enhanced care, and fewer patients being called back.
This technology is already making a difference to how efficiently and effectively our emergency departments and minor injury unit clinicians can treat patients.
Northern Ireland is a genuine pioneer in integrated diagnostics at-scale. NIPACS+ is a global exemplar in bringing together diagnostic images as an enabler for transforming how services can work together.
