What is the GRACE Draft Reporting Project?

The GRACE (Grampian’s Radiology Assisted Chest x-ray Evaluation) project sees the evaluation progress to phase 2, evaluating the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) draft reports for "not significant" (Normal) studies, to understand the impact on radiology departments across NHS Grampian.

What is the innovation?

The existing Harrison.ai (formerly Annalise.ai) CXR functionality will be extended to include the generation of a draft report, based on the presence or absence of predicted findings.  The draft report will be visible to the clinician who can then choose to import the draft report text and further edit the report as required.

Why are NHS Grampian evaluating this product?

NHS Grampian generates approximately 350,000 medical images a year, and about 60,000 of these images are chest X-ray.  A corresponding report per study is produced by clinicians advising findings, diagnosis and treatment. Approximately 40% of chest X-rays are “not significant” (normal).

NHS Grampian will evaluate impacts and a potential reduction in clinical administration time reporting studies by utilising the draft reporting functionality specifically for normal chest X-ray reporting, enabling Radiologists to spend more time on patients with findings.

Insights from the pilot will inform improvements to the evaluation design prior to the potential wider rollout to all consultant radiologists.