CT scans came six days sooner after Annalise Enterprise CXR arrived

SHTG found that NHS Grampian patients got CT scans six days sooner once Annalise Enterprise CXR triaged chest X-rays, with extra staff and CT slots. Other gains were not statistically significant.

  • 1 a person

    Patients who needed a CT scan got it six days sooner after their X-ray report, while the changes in time to treatment and stage at diagnosis were not statistically significant.

  • Not rated an organization

    SHTG found that the changes helped radiology staff prioritize their workload, but it gives no measure of the gain and found that the pathway cost more.

Depth runs from 1, a convenience or time saved, to 5, a life or a livelihood preserved.

Status
Reported and intended benefits.
Evidence

foundstudiedreportedclaimed

An independent assessment report supports the benefit.

Compared with

A 2019 baseline of clinical review without the software (n=113). Measured.

The system’s part
Not isolated. SHTG compared a 2019 baseline with the year after NHS Grampian added the software, extra reporting, a coordinator and protected CT slots. It writes that changes made at the same time make it difficult to tell the effect of each one. SHTG states that the software uses a machine learning model trained on over 820,000 chest X-ray images.
Limits
Not yet checked.
Costs and harms
Not yet checked.
Later
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Benefit type
Reduced Task Time
System
Annalise Enterprise CXR
Made by
Annalise.ai
Used by
NHS Grampian
Where
Grampian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Stage
In a pilot
Date
, when the source was published
Kind
Aggregate result
Broad benefit
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events, Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
Collections
Scrutiny and findings, Cross-border records
Last revised
31 October 2026

Sources

  1. Assessment report, by authors with no tie to the system.

    Scottish Health Technologies Group, Healthcare Improvement Scotland. Artificial intelligence-assisted clinician review of chest X-rays for suspected lung cancer. SHTG Assessment in response to an enquiry from the Accelerated National Innovation Adoption (ANIA) partnership, February 2025, pp. 3 and 18-20.

    All patients who needed a CT scan (n=68) received a CT scan six days more quickly following a CXR report, which was statistically significant (95% confidence interval (CI) [3.647,7.369], p<0.001).

Details

AI system

Workflow

The software flagged chest X-rays at elevated risk of lung cancer for urgent reporting by radiologists. A coordinator arranged urgent CT scans for patients whom radiologists judged to be at high risk. NHS Grampian protected 20 CT slots a week for the urgent pathway.

Follow-up

Conditions for replication

The software's calibration matches the staff and CT capacity of the pathway. A clinician reviews every flagged X-ray before a CT scan is arranged.

Entry details

Sector

Healthcare (lung cancer diagnosis).

Purpose

Annalise.ai built Annalise Enterprise CXR to scan chest X-rays for 124 clinically relevant findings and flag high-risk images for clinical review.

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Cite this record

Peter H. Vartanian. (2026). CT scans came six days sooner after Annalise Enterprise CXR arrived (AIBD-0887). Artificial Intelligence Benefits Database, edition of 31 October 2026. https://petervartanian.xyz/aibd/records/AIBD-0887.html (archived at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AADSII, version 4.0)

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