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Like many healthcare systems, Vestre Viken faced mounting diagnostic workloads driven by rising imaging volumes, an ageing population and increasing case complexity. Radiologists were under growing pressure to deliver timely, accurate reports while maintaining the high standards of care that patients expect. At the same time, the hospital recognised that sustaining this level of excellence would soon become impossible without innovation.
Vestre Viken sought to explore how AI could help achieve these goals, not by replacing radiologists, but by serving as a trusted companion that enhances accuracy, detects subtle findings and automates routine tasks and thus enhancing the overall workflows revolving around imaging.
“ Our primary goal with implementing AI is actually quite simple: find areas where AI can help and share the workload with healthcare personnel. We’ re not aiming to increase quality; we already believe it is excellent. The real challenge is to maintain it. And if we don’ t act now, that will no longer be possible,” said Bjørn Anton Graff, Project Manager at Vestre Viken Hospital Trust.
Realising efficiency and precision care with Artificial Intelligence
After a rigorous evaluation, Vestre Viken selected Philips AI Manager, a scalable orchestration platform designed to seamlessly connect AI applications with existing radiology systems. The solution enables hospitals to manage, deploy and monitor multiple AI algorithms centrally, ensuring consistent performance, data governance and compliance with European medical device standards.
Through deep integration with Philips Vue PACS and Philips RIS, AI Manager delivers AI-generated insights directly into the radiologist’ s primary reading environment, reducing context switching, accelerating diagnosis and seamlessly embedding AI assistance into daily workflows.
Gleamer’ s BoneView is first AI solution deployed
The first solution deployed was Gleamer’ s BoneView, Norway’ s first AI tool in routine clinical use, trained to detect fractures, effusions, bone lesions and dislocations on X-rays of patients over two-years-old. This implementation became the catalyst for a complete workflow redesign across all four hospitals.
Before AI, each hospital followed its own processes for trauma imaging, often resulting in delays, inconsistencies and unnecessary consultations. With AI Manager orchestrating BoneView across all sites and thanks to a tight integration within RIS-PACS workflow inside and outside the radiology department, Vestre Viken created a single, standardised workflow available 24 / 7, ensuring consistent quality and faster decision-making system-wide.
“ Applying Artificial Intelligence has proven highly beneficial. It has helped us streamline patient flow and serves as a valuable decision-support tool and a companion for both radiologist and residents in our daily clinical work,” said Dr Ramprabananth Sivanandan, Radiologist and AI Doctor at Vestre Viken Hospital Trust.
Delivering measurable impact across care teams, patients and hospital operations
Since going live with the Gleamer BoneView Application in August 2023, 74,000 patients have been examined with AI support, resulting in:
• 594 days of waiting time saved
• 13,800 emergency consultations prevented
• 3,100 physician hours freed up – equivalent to 1.9 full-time clinical roles
Beyond radiology, the AI-enabled workflow also supports clinicians across the care pathway. Emergency and orthopaedic teams can access AI findings directly through the RIS- PACS environment, allowing them to make faster, better-informed decisions without waiting for formal radiology reports. This seamless access to preliminary AI insights helps accelerate patient triage in acute settings, reduces unnecessary referrals and strengthens collaboration between imaging and frontline care teams.
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